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Alluvium vs Loess - What's the difference?

alluvium | loess |

As nouns the difference between alluvium and loess

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 loess is any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.

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

    • loess

    English

    (wikipedia loess)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (geology) Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.

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