Difference between revisions of "Alluvium"

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A fine sediment composed of Sand, Silt, and Mud deposited by a stream on its bank or floodplain. Alluvium may contain rich deposits of Clay.

Alluvium (Deut.); Alluvalböden (Deut.); aluvión (Esp.); alluvion (Fr.); aluvião (Port.); alluvium (Ned.)

G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 905

Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvium (Accessed Mar. 15, 2006) -for non-English terms

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 == Description ==
-A fine sediment composed of [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=sand sand], [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=silt silt], and [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=mud mud] deposited by a stream on its bank or floodplain. Alluvium may contain rich deposits of [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=clay clay].
+A fine sediment composed of [[sand|sand]], [[silt|silt]], and [[mud|mud]] deposited by a stream on its bank or floodplain. Alluvium may contain rich deposits of [[clay|clay]].
 == Synonyms and Related Terms ==