Alluvium vs Alluvial - What's the difference?
alluvium | alluvial | Related terms |
soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
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.
Alluvial is a related term of alluvium.
As nouns the difference between alluvium and alluvial
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 alluvial is a deposition of sediment over a long period of time by a river; an alluvial layer.As an adjective alluvial is
pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream.alluvium
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(wikipedia alluvium) (en-noun)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.