NOUN
- a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds
How To Use alluvial soil In A Sentence
- Mineral alluvial soils have an A horizon and the effects of gleying can be present.
- Mineral alluvial soils have an A horizon and the effects of gleying can be present.
- Oak woodland develops best in moist, protected canyons and valleys with deep alluvial soils.
- The style of winemaking is a perfect expression of the coolish climate and alluvial soils of the area.
- A similar effect can be created by perched water tables formed by silty or clayey layers of low permeability within alluvial soils, or cemented layers in weathered, residual soils.
- Saline alluvial soils have high levels of exchangeable sodium and the effects of gleying are clearly evident.
- The style of winemaking is a perfect expression of the coolish climate and alluvial soils of the Wairarapa.
- The enormous depth of alluvial soil found in the _bolsones_ or depressions of the Mexican plateau, formed from rock-decay, or of volcanic material accumulated by the great lakes of recent times which covered them in the central part of the great _mesa central_, bear striking evidence to the filling-up process of the past. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
- The banks are steep slides of rocks and mossy roots, pocketed with pitted red sand, driftgrass and slack alluvial soil, and stippled with a scatter of primroses and heaped heather.
- And that as a result, the land mass now actually sinks, because it's fine alluvial soil.