alluvia in English
Many vineyards are located on valley bottoms underlain by alluvium which can provide deep, free-draining soils of variable grain size.
Use "alluvia" in a sentence
1. Alluvia.
2. The soil here is limestone covered in alluvia.
3. Foothills alluvia Aquifers in foothills alluvia occur on both sides of the Andean and Sierra ranges.
4. metamorphites, Mesozoic igneous intrusive rocks, Tertiary volcanic and sedimentary breccias, and Quaternary alluvia.
5. • Young alluvia, still associated with present fluvial valleys or basins;
6. Hilly land accounts for 31.4% area and is made of condensed sand, clay and ancient alluvia.
7. The alluvia are permeable throughout their depth, and hazardous wastes may find their way into the groundwater.
8. The swamps of the Sensée Valley cover nearly 800 hectares, where alluvia and peat have been deposited.
9. SOIL : Sand and alluvia of the Rhone , "Montcalm". Dunal sand from the third barrier beach, "Le Môle".
10. When large, broad accumulations of alluvia are found in humid or subhumid regions, they are frequently of tectonic origin.
11. Fluvial alluvia of continental origin are mainly located in the lower reaches of the rivers, they are mainly sandy products.
12. Let's hope that the alluvia will do like last time, wipe away the old to make place for the new.
13. The golf closed little by little and transformed into an liman where the alluvia brought by the river made the Delta.
14. When it cannot be met the preserved sediments of the former river ought to be called buried alluvia: they were usually translocated from their former, primary position.
15. When the factibility researchs for the Chicoasen dam where completed, and the abutments considered safe with some improvements, the bed rock under the Grijalva alluvia was unknown.
16. Alluvium (plural Alluviums or alluvia) soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain Synonyms: alluvion, alluvial deposit; Translations
17. The till core of these zoned embankments is either placed directly on the till strata or extended through the alluvia to the underlying till by a core trench.
18. That case concerned discharges of fresh water and alluvia into the marine environment, which had not yet been the subject of Community provisions, although they were covered by copious harmonised environmental legislation.
19. The dam to be built on the Cheliff river in Algeria will be founded on fine sand and clayey alluvia more than 60 metres thick, in a zone of high seismicity.
20. It has been found that variability of alluvia is so high that test data, in order to be reproductible, must come from equipment spaced no more than 1 to 3 metres apart.
21. In this context, the Court found that the quantities of fresh water and alluvia discharged by the hydroelectric power station were indeed excessive, despite the measures taken by the public authorities to reduce them.
22. Plains alluvia A significant area of the South American continent (as much as one-third) is occupied by the vast flatlands extending from the llanos in the Orinoco delta ‘to the lower pampas south of Buenos Aires.
23. Defines functions Alluviate guide_lodes stat_alluvium Documented in stat_alluvium #' Alluvial positions #' #' Given a dataset with alluvial structure, `stat_alluvium` calculates the #' centroids (`x` and `y`) and heights (`ymin` and `ymax`) of the lodes, the #' intersections of the alluvia with the strata.
24. From reading the Figures it does not seem that the present pedological mechanisms of tropical African or American countries lead to an important Cu, Zn, Pb or Ba concentration, either in the soils or in the fine fraction of the alluvia.
25. The EOL diversion consists of four dams and seven dykes about half of which are founded for part of their length on overburden foundations of variable thickness and consisting of heterogeneous deposits of glacial till or sandy and silty alluvia.
26. On the other hand, the data on the geochemical contents of the present soils and alluvia derived from them are superabundant and run to several hundred thousand; they are the result of numerous geochemical prospections carried out somewhere or other in the world.
27. At the beginning it was an golf at the black sea, where 13.000 years ago an seacoast belt of alluvia started to form on the place occupied in our days from north to south of the sand banks: Jibrieni, Letea, Caraorman si Crasnicol.
28. However, since the water of the aquifer is used for the supply of neighbouring communities, it is proposed that in the areas where the thickness of the intervening semi-permeable alluvia is small, artificial sealing is installed using either compacted clay or plastic membranes.
29. Inflections of 'alluvium' (n noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.): Alluviums npl plural noun: Noun always used in plural form--for example, "jeans," "scissors." alluvia npl plural noun: Noun always used in plural form--for example, "jeans," "scissors."
30. metamorphites, Mesozoic igneous intrusive rocks, Tertiary volcanic and sedimentary breccias, and Quaternary alluvia. The Precambrian Halloran Complex has been subdivided into the following formations: (1) Silver Lake Peak Formation, mostly quartzofeldspathic gneisses; (2) Cree Camp Formation, quartzites and metarhyolites; (3) Riggs Formation, metamorphosed carbonate rocks. This complex is intruded by dioritic rocks. Regional metamorphism produced parageneses of the almandine amphibolite facies. Metablastesis was a major phenomenon, partial fusion was a local one. The rocks are, therefore, metatexites. Regional metamorphism was followed by diaphthoresis, accentuated in a zone of dislocation.
31. The application of Articles 4(1) and 8 of the Barcelona Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution and Article 6(1) and (3) of the Protocol for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution from land-based sources to discharges of fresh water and alluvia into a saltwater marsh falls within the Community framework, even though such discharges have not been the subject of specific Community legislation, since those articles are in mixed agreements concluded by the Community and its Member States and concern a field in large measure covered by Community law.
32. A method for removing chromium and/or arsenic from solid or semi-solid materials in which they are present in the form of derivatives having degrees of oxidation of III or more, said materials being, e.g., soil, clarifier sludge or alluvia, wherein the materials are exposed to an electric field generated between electrodes in electrode compartments that are located in wells in the material to be processed and contain a conductive solution, while maintaining the pH of the solution at at least 7 during the removal process, and, if required, carrying out the method in the presence of an alkaline or alkaline-earth hypohalite.