Alluvial vs Gravel - What's the difference?
alluvial | gravel |
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.
(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.
A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
(uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
(uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=John F. Hume, title=The Abolitionists, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We kept quietly on our way until we reached a place in the road that had been freshly graveled , and where the surface was covered with stones just suited to our use.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2006, date=May 5, author=Harold Henderson, title=Snips, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The soldiers admitted that while they had the money to lay gravel on a particular road, they lacked the funds to pave it, even though all agreed that graveled roads offered easy concealment for IEDs.}}
To puzzle or annoy
* {{quote-book, year=1894, author=Anthony Hope, title=Dolly Dialogues, chapter=, edition=
, passage="The fracture is your making; the pin--" Here Miss Dolly interrupted; to tell the truth I was not sorry, for I was fairly graveled for the meaning of the pin.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Christopher Darlington Morley, title=Mince Pie, chapter=, edition=
, passage='Oh, yes,' says Jan. Pond was graveled ; didn't know just what to do.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Herbert Quick, title=Vandemark's Folly, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It graveled me like sixty to pay such a price, but I had to do it because the season was just between hay and grass.}}
To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
* Bible, Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version)
* Camden
To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
* Shakespeare
* Sir T. North
To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between alluvial and gravel
is that alluvial is a deposition of sediment over a long period of time by a river; an alluvial layer while gravel is (uncountable) small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.As an adjective alluvial
is pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.As a verb gravel is
to apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.alluvial
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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.
Synonyms
* fluvialDerived terms
* alluvial fan * alluvially * alluvial plainUsage notes
* The noun is normally used in the plural by engineers who recover valuable minerals from these layers.See also
* deltaic ----gravel
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(wikipedia gravel)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (small stones or pebbles) * (calculus deposit) stones, gallstonesSee also
* alluviumVerb
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- When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they gravelled the ship.
- Willam the Conqueror chanced as his arrival to be gravelled ; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground.
- When you were gravelled for lack of matter.
- The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.
