alluvial
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“The weaker alluvial sediments can amplify shaking, and mountains are vulnerable to landsliding, including along the roads that lead to mountain villages.”
From National Geographic • Sep. 11, 2023
The yellow-vested teams work in areas slated for construction, carefully digging 10 feet or more into hard alluvial soil and pushing shovelfuls of dirt through course-mesh screens to gather the smallest pieces of evidence.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023
Prospectors call it “flood gold” — fine-sized flakes carried by alluvial waters and then deposited as flow recedes.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
Whereas the unpredictable flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Mesopotamia commonly brought destruction along with fresh alluvial deposits, the Nile’s summer flooding, predictable as clockwork, brought only welcome deposits of rich sediment.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The good news was that the flooding deposited rich, alluvial silt all over the fields, making the Nile delta the richest farmland in the ancient world.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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