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Alluvium

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-000263

The sedimentary matter such as silt, sand, clay, gravel or similar detrital matter deposited by running water, as in floodplains, deltas, riverbeds etc.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-000263
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
Synonymsalluvial deposits
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoSediments; Alluvial land; Alluvial soils
TranslationsSpanish: aluvión
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-000263",
  "term": "Alluvium",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The sedimentary matter such as silt, sand, clay, gravel or similar detrital matter deposited by running water, as in floodplains, deltas, riverbeds etc.",
  "synonyms": [
    "alluvial deposits"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "sediments",
    "alluvial land",
    "alluvial soils"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "aluvión"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/alluvium/"
}

Record 261 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.