What does alluvial mean?
Alluvial means Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream..
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/əˈluː.vi.əl/ · adjective
Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream..
I am a working engineer from the Mount Magdalena district of Coolgardie. I don't want to take up your time with outside details so I will only say that about two years ago I had an opportunity of acquiring a share in a very promising claim—gold, you understand, both reef and alluvial.
Soils are a prominent feature of floodplain environments, and we include them in this section because most of the available information on ancient soils pertains to alluvial examples, aside from those in Quaternary-Recent time.
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Alluvial means Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream..
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I am a working engineer from the Mount Magdalena district of Coolgardie. I don't want to take up your time with outside details so I will only say that about two years ago I had an opportunity of acquiring a share in a very promising claim—gold, you understand, both reef and alluvial.
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