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/ˌælˈuviəl dəpˈɑzɪt/ Listen

Alluvial deposit

noun

Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down. Synonyms: alluvial sediment, alluvion, alluvium.

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... since, heard so clear and perfect an echo with so many words repeated. We were camped on the right bank of the Yampa as the left was a bottom land covered with cedars and we preferred higher ground. This bottom was an alluvial deposit triangular in shape about a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide with the Yampa and Green on two sides and a vertical sandstone wall on the third. Behind our camp the rocks broke back in a rough, steep ...

— A Canyon Voyage • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

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