alluvium
noun
a deposit of sand, mud, etc., formed by flowing water.
alluvia
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pluralof alluvium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But it is not often that borings come to be made in river alluvia.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes
Hence it was long and erroneously determined that bare rocks in the neighbourhood of shallow alluvia characterise rich placers, and that the wealthiest mining-regions are poor and stunted in vegetation.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
These subterranean vaults are usually filled in part with mud, pebbles, and breccia, in which bones occur belonging to the same assemblage of animals as those characterising the Post-pliocene alluvia above described.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
S., good sections of these old brecciated alluvia occur.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer
I start with two Mason-bees of the Walls working at their nests on the pebbles in the alluvia of the Aygues, not far from Serignan.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
