ALLUVIAL VALLEY FLOOR


Meaning of ALLUVIAL VALLEY FLOOR in English

(Public Law 95-87, Section 701) (Legal) "The unconsolidated stream laid deposits where water availability is sufficient for subirrigation or flood irrigation. It does not include upland areas which are generally overlain by a thin veneer of colluvial deposits composed chiefly of debris from sheet erosion, deposits by unconcentrated runoff or slopewash, talus, or other mass movement accumulation and wind-blown deposits."

Environmental engineering English vocabulary.      Английский словарь экологического инжиниринга.