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Alluvion

[n] clay or slit or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
[n] the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"1
[n] gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment


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