alluvial fan

a gradually sloping mass of alluvium that widens out like a fan from the place where a stream begins to slow down

See alluvial fan in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A fan-shaped accumulation of alluvium deposited at the mouth of a ravine or at the juncture of a tributary stream with the main stream.

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