Refering to my trusty volume of the US Bureau of Mines "A dictionary of
mining, mineral and related terms" 1967:-
ALLUVIUM a. Clay silt, sand, gravel, or other rock materials transported by
following water and deposited in comparatively recent geological time as
sorted or semisorted sediments in riverbeds, esturies, and flood plains, on
lake shores and in fans at the base of mountain slopes and esturies. The
term is not applied to subaqueous sediments deposited in seas and lakes or
too nonsorted sediments carried or deposited by glaciers.
Is it being used in relation to its geographic loaction?
Many village & industrial sites are constructed on alluvial deposits as
these are normal well drained and generally above the flood plains of the
local drainage system (be they alluvial or glaciel deposits). Brings back
fond memories of O-level Geography and the positition of Kettlewell in
Wharfedale on the Alluvial Fan created by water emerging from Dowber Gill
Beck (and all the becks draining Great Whernside) ........... jinx, 25 years
ago <sigh>
G
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From: "Bryan Maloney" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:58 PM
Subject: Alluvium
> Hi List sorry the word was Alluvium, not allumium as I think I put
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> Regards Bryan.
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