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

It’s a desolate alluvial fan on the southern flanks of the Cady Mountains, where sparkling calcite crystals and pieces of quartz, jasper and agate are continually carried down the slopes by thunderstorms and flash floods.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 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

During the rest of the year, the climate is drier, and farmers plant and tend their milpas on the alluvial soil.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann