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Alluvion

noun

Gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment.

The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation.

Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down. Synonyms: alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvium.

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"Alluvion" Quotes from Famous Books

... contents with great care and found a few grains of gold in the alluvion! This was joy indeed, and mentally I bade goodbye to the life of a planter (although I had not yet begun it) and there on the spot decided to dedicate my time and energy to the gathering of gold which would be far the quickest way ...

— My Friends the Savages - Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) • Giovanni Battista Cerruti

... however at Luxemburgh chalk with flint, the same as in England and France. Therefore the flinty soil of that country, in like manner, demonstrates the great destruction of the solid parts, and illustrates the formation of soil by the remainder of the hard parts below, and the alluvion ...

— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton

... are made to land, bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is, insensibly and imperceptibly; which are circumstances, that assist the imagination ...

— An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals • David Hume

Words linked to "Alluvion" : geologic process, geological phenomenon, deposit, Noah and the Flood, geological process, alluvial deposit, the Flood, inundation, Noachian deluge, flood, delta, placer, sediment, debacle, flash flood, alluvium, flashflood, alluvial soil, Noah's flood