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Alluvial fans are fan-shaped deposits of water-transported material (alluvium). They typically form at the base of topographic features where there is a ...
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In addition to tons of lighter rocks, gavel and sand creating a 42-acre alluvial fan. A trash collector heard the waters crashing down the Roaring River and called park rangers, who evacuated campers at Aspenglen campgrounds.
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Mojave Desert Geology, alluvial fan formation in the Mojave Desert ... These light grey washes are the active channels of the alluvial fan. Older, inactive channels have been darkened by desert varnish. As Death Valley deepens and tilts, older alluvial fan channels are permanently abandoned, while new channels cut deep...
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alluvial fan - an outspread, gently sloping mass of alluvium deposited by a stream, especially in an arid or semiarid region where a stream issues from a narrow canyon onto a plain or valley floor. Viewed from above, it has the shape of an open fan, the apex being at the valley mouth.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on alluvial fan (geological feature), unconsolidated sedimentary deposit that accumulates at the mouth of a mountain canyon because of a dimunition or cessation of sediment transport by the issuing stream. ... An alluvial fan can be large and may occupy a wide area, ranging from only a...
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Definition of alluvial fan in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of alluvial fan. Pronunciation of alluvial fan. Translations of alluvial fan. alluvial fan synonyms, alluvial fan antonyms. Information about alluvial fan in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... A fan-shaped mass of sediment, ... alluvial ore deposit;
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Alluvial fans are a type of depositional landform. ... An alluvial fan is a wide pile of sediment deposited where a river leaves the mountains. (more below)
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alluvial fan n. A fan-shaped accumulation of alluvium deposited at the mouth of a ravine or at the juncture of a tributary stream with the main ... The typical watercourse in an arid climate has a large, funnel-shaped basin at the top, leading to a narrow defile, which opens out into an alluvial fan at the bottom.
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