Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colluvium
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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When high tides arrive, water brings silt into the bay.—
Andrea Tamayo,
Scientific American,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When blown by the wind, these sediments are referred to as loess.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
2 Sep. 2021
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The windblown loess soil comprises freshwater sedimentary topsoil resting over fractured basalt subsoil.—
Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/OregonLive,
oregonlive,
4 June 2020
Noun
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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
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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
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“Colluvium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colluvium. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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