alluvium

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Deposits of alluvium and volcanic ash have made desirable soil that is among the top 2% in the world.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

Paved surfaces end miles from the rock outcrop, so we drive on overgrown rutted two-tracks that cross the loose sandy dune fields that show up on our geologic maps as “QAL”—Quaternary alluvium.

From Scientific American • Dec. 15, 2020

Thus, a landscape architect I know savors the very smell of the dirt embedded in his botany texts; it is the alluvium of his life’s work.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2020

The island’s geology — a heart of granite in the west, compacted alluvium in the east — is such that most of it could be hollowed out.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2017

Faults may occur in rocks of all ages; small local dislocations are observable even in glacial deposits, alluvium and loess.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various