Rich alluvial diamond deposits make Namibia a primary source for gem-quality diamonds.
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Alluvial
Synonyms for "alluvial" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Adjective(2 words)
Strong matches (2)
Noun(1 words)
floodplain soils
Related words (3)
Adjective(3 words)
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6 entriesalluvial clayalluvial depositalluvial fanalluvial plainalluvial siltalluvial soil
Collocations
6 entriesalluvial aquiferalluvial depositsalluvial fanalluvial plainalluvial sedimentsalluvial soil
Inflections
2 entriesmore alluvialmost alluvial
Derivations
3 entriesSample sentences
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He is one of many who have flocked to the Kangari hills in southern Sierra Leone to find small fortunes in the hard graft of alluvial gold mining.
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Immediately after the inundation is imbibed, the Beduins sow the seed upon the alluvial mud, without any previous preparation whatever.
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Soils are a prominent feature of floodplain environments, and we include them in this section because most of the available information on ancient soils pertains to alluvial examples, aside from those in Quaternary-Recent time.
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