Eluvial vs Alluvial - What's the difference?
eluvial | alluvial |
Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.
* 1992 , Anna K. Behrensmeyer & Robert W. Hook, "Paleoenvironmental Contexts and Taphonomic Modes" in, Terrestrial Ecosystems through Time , page 35.
As adjectives the difference between eluvial and alluvial
is that eluvial is of or pertaining to eluvium while alluvial is pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.As a noun alluvial is
a deposition of sediment over a long period of time by a river; an alluvial layer.alluvial
English
Adjective
(-)- Soils are a prominent feature of floodplain environments, and we include them in this section because most of the available information on ancient soils pertains to alluvial examples, aside from those in Quaternary-Recent time.