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Recent Examples of alluviumThe 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
But after weeks of staring at bare ground, a few green shoots pushed through the dark silt.
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Lila Hempel-Edgers,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Sep. 2025
For millennia, the Nile's predictable annual floods deposited nutrient-rich silt on its banks, enabling agriculture to flourish in an arid landscape and giving rise to one of history's most enduring civilizations.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
26 Aug. 2025
The avalanche temporarily dammed the Lonza River, which runs through Blatten, and small lakes, filled with dead trees and detritus from homes, formed on each side of the village.
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Daniel A. Gross,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
But its detritus remains, giving rise to streaks that wow sky watchers every August.
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Clara Moskowitz,
Scientific American,
11 Aug. 2025
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