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• n  clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

• Rearing a few surprising skyscrapers above the rich alluvium of the Connecticut River is Hartford, capital of the third smallest State in the Union, home of a considerable .

• alluvial sediment
• alluvial deposit
• alluvion

News & Articles

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• Mell Kuhn, of Arkansas City, former city commissioner:
  As usual we are on the brink of disaster, as a result of today's drought conditions and over draw from the Arkansas River Alluvium the salt levels are up.
  Sept. 19, 2013 - The Arkansas City Traveler

Quotes

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• Anne Fadiman in Deccan Herald
  Fadiman writes about a landscape architect who "savours the very smell of the dirt embedded in his botany texts; it is the alluvium of his life's work."