Usage examples for alluvial
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The country around is low, with a rich alluvial soil. – A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' by Robert Carmichael-Smyth
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Here I saw luxuriant red clover and blue grass, and he had also a field of carrots, which do well on this alluvial bottom, it seems. – Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
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Their present flood plains lie as much as some hundreds of feet below wide alluvial terraces which mark their former levels. – The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton