alluvial
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So, farmers have long relied on the shallow Alluvial Aquifer for water in the scorching summers.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2023
“Most people in the industry I speak with are worried,” said Dimieari Von Kemedi, managing director of Alluvial Agriculture, a farm collective.
From Reuters • Apr. 24, 2020
Alluvial fans are a depositional landform created where streams emerge from mountain canyons into a valley.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Alluvial deposits are common in arid places with little soil development.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Alluvial plain.—The hydrographical basin of the Mississippi displays, on the grandest scale, the action of running water on the surface of a vast continent.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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