alluvion

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A level-topped bank; the water has cut its way down through the soft alluvion of an elevated plain to the limestone rock at the bottom.

From Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 by Ruskin, John

The hoof of my horse no longer sinks in light sand or dark alluvion.

From The Rifle Rangers by Reid, Mayne

The cypress begins near the mouth of the Ohio and spreads through the alluvion portions of the Lower Valley.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

The land is an alluvion of no very ancient formation.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne

The alluvion between these rivers, protected from inundation by levees along the streams, is divided by many bayous, of which the Tensas, with its branch the Macon, is the most important.

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard