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alluvial fan

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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