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Alluvium vs Colluvium - What's the difference?

alluvium | colluvium |

As nouns the difference between alluvium and colluvium

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 colluvium is a loose accumulation of rock and soil debris at the foot of a slope.

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

    • colluvium

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia colluvium) (colluvia)
  • (geology) A loose accumulation of rock and soil debris at the foot of a slope