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alluvion
noun
clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
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noun
clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
noun
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
“plains fertilized by annual inundations”
noun
gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
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plains fertilized by annual inundations
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