Isabella Bird

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.

English Explorer

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.

Ernest Thompson Seton

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

American Leader

Used in geography, describes land made from river deposits. It's often about locations near rivers or floods.

Geographical Context

Alluvial often implies fertile land ideal for farming because of rich minerals the water brings.

Agricultural Richness

Reflects natural processes; typically not associated with human-made features or events.

Natural Processes

 and the pictures that we can take of the surface, and the things that we can do on the surface to ground truth that data. This data, we can resolve things that are about 20 meters across. The camera has a resolution of six meters per pixel. And we can see that channel now coming in from the upper left and draining out into a fan of sediment. We call this an alluvial fan.

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 the largest alluvial fan of its kind fed by floodwaters from the mighty calving goo basin the size of Texas the world's largest undeveloped river catchment home to the largest remaining population of