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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
In a new study published in Antiquity, researchers from Cambridge and Nottingham examined a 16-feet sediment core from Aldborough in Yorkshire, an important center of metal production located at a former Roman tribal town of Brigantes.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
Direct dating Paleontologists often estimate the age of plant and animal fossils based on sediments where the organic material was preserved.
Howell said a silt protection barrier on the street near the construction site became clogged, leading to an overflow of water.
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Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Sep. 2025
The flood left a silt dirt behind, which can be home to these tiny flies that lay their eggs in organic matter typically found in sewer or piping systems.
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
So, working out that musical movie with the clay of the songs that had already been written and how to work a new scenario around that became a really fun puzzle.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
Those intriguing chemical fingerprints include the iron-containing minerals vivianite and greigite, which Perseverance spotted in the clay-rich sediments of a long-dry lakebed.
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