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Alluvium vs Alluvion - What's the difference?

alluvium | alluvion |

As nouns the difference between alluvium and alluvion

is that alluvium is soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain while alluvion is the increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.

alluvium

English

Noun

(wikipedia alluvium) (en-noun)
  • soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

    • alluvion

    English

    Noun

  • (legal) The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.

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