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Six example sentences with alluvial, each labelled with its topic.
The delta's alluvial soil rebuilds itself each flood season, which is why farms cluster along the lower channel.
Environment
Early cities rose on alluvial plains where the annual silt spared farmers the cost of hauling manure.
History
Geologists date an alluvial fan by the pebbles at its toe, which travel farther in the strongest floods.
Science
Engineers drove piles forty metres through the alluvial layer before the tower's foundation reached anything solid.
Architecture
The alluvial plain south of the city is flat as a table, and the train crosses it for an hour without a single curve.
Travel
Alluvial gold sparked the rush because a single miner with a pan could work the gravel without any capital.
Economics
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