alluvion
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Probable depth of alluvion is about one fifth of a mile, by inference from the depth of the Gulf of Mexico.'
From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
When the currents are not strong enough to move the larger banks, they at least carry sand and earth with them, and deposit them as shoals or new alluvion at less exposed spots....
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 by Various
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 John Ruskin
The American bottom adjacent to the Mississippi is rich alluvion, and divided into timber and prairie.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
Finally, in the ravine called Ab-é-pardöma, I discovered in the alluvion some stone instruments presenting very ancient paleolithic characters.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
