colluvial

Examples

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• Rockfalls are just one of many examples of gravity-driven colluvial transport in areas with relief.

  Academic text (2001)

• Soil depths range from 5 to 30 centimeters but are deepest at colluvial sites and in valley bottoms, which are filled with sediment up to 2 meters thick.

  Academic text (2002)

• Colluvial movement of hillslope materials or snow involves mostly solid matter but may include substantial amounts of water.

  Academic text (2001)

• There, the Late Classic Maya used alluvial and colluvial fills and organic fertilizers with the nearby seasonal water supply as part of their subsistence system.

  Academic text (2002)

• It is generally believed that depositional basins at or near their moisture saturation points may promote C stabilization more than aerated colluvial deposits.

  Academic text (2007)

• Erosion creates significant, formerly uncounted C sinks; thus, there is a major need to better understand the C-sink potential of erosion in buried soils and the processes that slow the turnover of buried C in alluvial and colluvial soils in different regions.

  Academic text (2007)

• The gardener discovered that the plants thrived in the rich, colluvial deposits at the foot of the hill.

• To understand how soil has been shaped by gravity over time, geologists study colluvial layers.

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology