alluvium

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Recent Examples of alluvium The tunnel will traverse multiple difficult subsoil layers: a surface of historical and active landfill materials, including spoil from London tunneling projects and decades-old power station fly ash, a thick layer of alluvium composed of silts, clays, and peat, and, finally, highly variable chalk. Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025 At some point, alluvium buried the entire tusk, possibly from major storm flooding. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2024 The tusk was covered with alluvium, possibly during a major flooding event, MDEQ said. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2024 These waters carried debris called alluvium, that makes up the Delta's fertile soil. Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2021 Scott traces their advent to a few hundred years later, in a constellation of cities that sprang up on the Mesopotamian alluvium around what was then the northern end of the Persian Gulf. Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020
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Noun
  • Without an excavation to remove the sediment, the open-water area will eventually be replaced by a marsh and then a meadow.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The drilling project encountered issues, including sediment washing into a wetland and a borehole being left unfilled.
    Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Because of the weir, the 220-acre lagoon can’t flow freely to the ocean and is slowly filling with silt and reeds.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When high tides arrive, water brings silt into the bay.
    Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When blown by the wind, these sediments are referred to as loess.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The windblown loess soil comprises freshwater sedimentary topsoil resting over fractured basalt subsoil.
    Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/OregonLive, oregonlive, 4 June 2020
Noun
  • No writing room can be pristine, but the detritus must not outweigh the buzzing, trembling atmosphere of solemn, serious work.
    Katie da Cunha Lewin September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Any kind of hard material attracts fauna in water, says Andrey Vedenin, a marine biologist at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany, who was not involved in the Mallows Bay study but co-authored a separate new paper that detailed wildlife thriving on war detritus in the Baltic Sea.
    Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Other standout options include clay and lip mask beloved by Glamour editors.
    Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The white clay room and red clay room were on point.
    Essence, Essence, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Alluvium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alluvium. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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