alluvium

Converse of object

• deposit: Floods can deposit rich, fertile alluvium on agricultural areas.
• overlie: The fact that Seaton beach overlies estuarine alluvium is clear evidence that it has experienced landward translation.
• associate: The drift geology map also identifies linear deposits of alluvium associated with the dip slope drainage of the plateau.
• include: Deposits of more recent times include river alluvium, blown sand and modern beaches.

Adjective modifier

• marine: The commonest examples are the raw sandy gleys associated with sand flats and unripened gleys in marine alluvium and saltmarsh.
• estuarine: The fact that Seaton beach overlies estuarine alluvium is clear evidence that it has experienced landward translation.
• deep: Redcliffe is situated on the outside of a meander bend of the River Avon on deep alluvium.
• rich: Floods can deposit rich, fertile alluvium on agricultural areas.
• recent: To account for this it is suggested that gold grain growth has occurred in head and perhaps in more recent alluvium in valley bottoms.
• Quaternary: The western margin of anticlinal folds in Quaternary alluvium are marked with black arrows.

Noun used with modifier

• river: Well-drained soils occur on the sandy and gravely material but more waterlogged soils are found on river alluvium and glacial clays.
• clay: These were deposits that told a story of gradual human intervention and of the archeological deposition of coarser deposits over silt and clay alluvium.