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the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
plains fertilized by annual inundations - gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
- clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
How To Use alluvion In A Sentence
- The accessions, which are made to land, bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is, insensibly and imperceptibly; which are circumstances, that assist the imagination in the conjunction. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
- There is also another small stream, and there is an abundance of mill seats with considerable tracts of alluvion; though the general character is hilly with pretty lofty ridges. Living in Dryden: July 2004 Archives
- Except at the season of floods, it is not navigable; but the alluvion through which it flows is very productive, while the pine forest immediately to the west is sterile. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War
- The accessions, which are made to lands bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is, Insensibly and Imperceptibly; which are circumstances that mightily assist the imagination in the conjunction. A Treatise of Human Nature
- The Bayou Pierre, three hundred feet wide and too deep to ford, leaves the Red River a few miles below Shreveport, and after a long course, in which it frequently expands into lakes, returns to its parent stream three miles above Grand Ecore, dividing the pine-clad hills on the west from the alluvion of the river on the east. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War
- The soil of the alluvion is warm, rich and productive; that of the uplands rather wet and cold, but excellent for pasture and meadow. Living in Dryden: Dryden from 1812 to 1822