adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
soil
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MAREUIL-SUR-Af: Belemnite chalk on the slopes beneath Mutigny, alluvial soil approaching Mareuil-sur-Aÿ itself.
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He loved the smell of the woods, and the damp alluvial soil that covered these mountains like a blanket.
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Saline alluvial soils have high levels of exchangeable sodium and the effects of gleying are clearly evident.
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Mineral alluvial soils have an A horizon and the effects of gleying can be present.
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The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer.
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Peaty alluvial soils characteristically have an O horizon which usually occurs at the surface but can be interbedded with freshwater alluvial sediments.
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Altdorf is sited on alluvial soil where the Schachen side valley enters the Reuss valley from the east.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an alluvial plain
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Carrying alluvial sands from the Rocky Mountains, they helped make the plains.
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He loved the smell of the woods, and the damp alluvial soil that covered these mountains like a blanket.
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MAREUIL-SUR-Af: Belemnite chalk on the slopes beneath Mutigny, alluvial soil approaching Mareuil-sur-Aÿ itself.
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Mineral alluvial soils have an A horizon and the effects of gleying can be present.
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Much of this development has involved sugar-cane cultivation on sloping terrain in contrast to its confinement to flat alluvial areas prior to 1960.
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Saline alluvial soils have high levels of exchangeable sodium and the effects of gleying are clearly evident.
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The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer.
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The walls were mostly slate, apparently quite normal, grained rock produced by a perfectly standard physical process of alluvial deposition.