alluviums
- plural of alluvium.
Example Sentences
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In the course of ages, a new system of valleys was excavated, so that the rivers ran at lower levels than those at which the first alluviums and sheets of lava were formed.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
Herculaneum was situated several miles nearer to the volcano, and has, therefore, been always more exposed to be covered, not only by showers of ashes, but by alluviums and streams of lava.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
There are great tracts of alluviums lying along the banks of the Derwent, the Ouse, and the Trent, and the Romney Marsh of Kent along the banks of the Thames.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
The whole of them were at first confounded with the superficial alluviums of Europe; and it was long before their real extent and thickness, and the various ages to which they belong, were fully recognised.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
Besides, the last operations of water have a tendency to disturb and confound together all pre-existing alluviums.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
