(a.) Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
(2) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
(3) Most of the new habitats, unlike previously known areas, are not in alluvial plains, but are at higher elevations.
(4) Zimbabwe also has the world's second biggest platinum reserves and hugely controversial deposits of alluvial diamonds .
(5) Alluvial soils were more favorable than eroded hill soils.
(6) Movement and Metabolism of 32P and 35S-double labeled Kitazin P (S-benzyl O,O-diisopropyl phosphorothiolate) and 35S-labeled edifenphos (O-ethyl S,S-diphenyl phosphorodithiolate) were examined with three types of soils, sandy loam, alluvial clay loam, and volcanic ash loam.
(7) The rate of biological nitrogen fixation was determined by the acetylene technique in soils and on the roots of orange, mandarin and lemon trees growing in red, yellow, podzolic, alluvial brown forest, and humus-calcareous soils.
(8) Vertical movement of both the compounds in soil column was different with soil types, and the order of mobility in soil column was as follows: sandy loam greater than alluvial clay loam greater than volcanic ash loam.
(9) Over 5 day incubation under flooded conditions, greater volatile loss of lindane occurred in sandy soil than in alluvial soil apparanetly due to greater adsorption to the soil colloids decreasing the insecticide concentration in the standing water on the laterite soil.
(10) By the 1890s our town was full of miners toiling to extract what was left of its alluvial gold.
(11) and Pseudomonas sp., were isolated from parathionamended flooded alluvial soil which exhibited parathion-hydrolyzing ability.
(12) However, the city is known for its numerous potholes mostly on the side streets because of the alluvial soil which is always shifting and moving depending on whether it's wet or dry.
(13) Salt mixtures comprising either monocalcium phosphate or sodium chloride showed highly inhibiting action on the studied microbial activities in sandy, alluvial, and chernozem soils, while monocalcium phosphate stimulated the heterotrophs of rendzina.
(14) Samples from two depths (0--15 and 15--30 cm) of five Egyptian soils: sandy, calcareous, fertile alluvial, saline alluvial, and alkali alluvial were tested for urease activity.
(15) Kitazin P under flooded condition of alluvial clay loam was slightly more persistent as compared with upland condition.
(16) A real political life can be restored in a Labour party that has received an alluvial flood of new members.
(17) Shenhua has consistently argued that the Watermark mine would not affect the plains’ alluvial aquifers, which feed the Namoi catchment, because the three open-cut pits will be on ridges above the plains.
(18) The influence of different doses of boron (100, 500 and 1000 ppm) and cadmium (50, 100, 500, 1000 and 2000 ppm) on the activity of nitrogen fixation in the sandy and alluvial soil has been studied.
(19) The rover took the images with a telephoto camera on its central mast, downhill from a pattern of sediments called an alluvial fan created by several water streams perhaps billions of years ago.
(20) The soil was found to be of great variability, being fertile where it was of alluvial origin but of reduced potential where it was non-alluvial.
Alluvium
Definition:
(n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, Corbicula from several tributaries draining alluvium derived from the Sierra Nevada had lower As concentrations than would be predicted by the relation developed for perennial flow sites of the San Joaquin River.