Alluvion meaning

Noun: alluvion

Pronunciation:(u’loo-vee-un)

Alluvion meaning:

• Gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment

• The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

Synonyms: flood, inundation, deluge

• Clay, silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

Synonyms: alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium
Derived forms: alluvions
Quotations:

1. Julio Llamazares – Sometimes, you think you have forgotten everything, that the rust and dust of the years have destroyed all the things we once entrusted to their voracious appetite. But all it takes is a noise, a smell, a sudden, unexpected touch, and suddenly the alluvion of time sweeps pitilessly over us, and our memories light up with all the brilliance and fury of a lightning flash
2. Norman – The alluvial soil is, of course level, and the swamps, which are only inundated alluvions, are dead flats.
3. Norman – There are also hills of considerable magnitude on the east side of the Mississippi, beyond the alluvions.
4. L.Carroll – The landmarks of primitive Christianity are buried by the alluvion of human inventions.
5. Edward Belcher – Sea alluvions differ from those of rivers, in that they form a slope towards the land.

Sample sentences:

1. Let us work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake.
2. Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through Church and State, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a point d’appui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time.
3. The Iowa Economic Development Authority has unmasked Project Alluvion, awarding $18 million in sales tax rebates for Microsoft to build a data center in West Des Moines.
4. The streams their rich alluvion bring and nourish all the ground.
5. When night came on, in these damp alluvions, and darkness was added to our danger, the scene was indeed gloomy.
6. Frugality is an old fashioned virtue that is deeply covered with the alluvion of modern extravagance.
7. I examined the contents with great care and found a few grains of gold in the alluvion!
8. Thou hast broken from the hills that enchained thee, and now rollest far and free, cleaving a wide way through thine own alluvion.
9. The soil in the river valley is a rich black alluvion.
10. The whole party crowded to the spot where Uncas pointed out the impression of a moccasin in the moist alluvion.
11. But generally speaking, Louisiana may be considered as one immense plain, divided into pine woods, prairies, alluvions, swamps, and hickory and oak lands.
12. Further down, abrupt cliffs and overhanging precipices are frequently seen at the termination of the river alluvion.
13. The alluvion of political corruption has submerged this path of duty and safety.
14. We were here within the boundaries of the Mississippi alluvions.
15. The land is an alluvion of no very ancient formation.
16. Some of the mines exist in, and have been pursued beneath, this top alluvion, across the valleys.
17. Such is the sylva that covers the alluvion of Louisiana.
18. Louisiana, being chiefly alluvion, furnishes only two specimens, sulphuret of antimony, and meteoric iron ore.
19. The level surface of this alluvion is illustrated by the very slight descent of the Jhelam.
20. The hoof of my horse no longer sinks in light sand or dark alluvion.
21. The changes of property in Bengal, by alluvion, are equally attended to.
22. Probable depth of alluvion is about one fifth of a mile, by inference from the depth of the Gulf of Mexico.
23. The cypress begins near the mouth of the Ohio and spreads through the alluvion portions of the Lower Valley.
24. But it may be alledged, that those sand banks are increasing still with the alluvion of Germany, instead of being in a decreasing state.
25. Immediately on the banks of the Ohio and other large rivers are strips of rich alluvion soil.
26. A level-topped bank; the water has cut its way down through the soft alluvion of an elevated plain to the limestone rock at the bottom.
27. A hardy race multiplied along the alluvion of the streams and subdued the more rocky and less inviting fields.
28. Napoleon, with naïve comprehensiveness, called Holland the alluvion of French rivers.
29. The first exhibits, on inspection, a formation of sandstone and reproduced rocks, piled stratum super stratum, and covered with boulder drifts and alluvion.
30. The steep hills and natural mounds that border the alluvions have obtained the name of bluffs.