alluvial valley

collocation in English

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alluvial
adjective
uk
/əˈluː.vi.əl/us
/əˈluː.vi.əl/
made up of sand and earth left by rivers, ...
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valley
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvæl.i/us
/ˈvæl.i/
an area of low land between hills or mountains, often with a river running ...
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The headlands are typically 100 to 150-m-high plunging cliffs cut into schists and granites, whereas the embayments frontalluvialvalleydeposits.
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Thealluvialvalleyfloor would therefore have been swamp.
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The city is in analluvialvalleyand much of the city has a problem with urban salinity.
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It spans over a nearly flatalluvialvalleyfloor between bedrock abutment ridges.
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Soon, the narrow 2500ft m-deep canyon gives way to a broadalluvialvalley.
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Thealluvialvalleyis wide and relatively flat with a meandering river channel that changes its course.
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The property varies in altitude from 350 m in the south-west to 1,050 m in the north-east, and in landform from rugged mountains to a broadalluvialvalley.
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In recent years the broad alluvial valleys lying between the rugged volcanic mountains have become important transmission foci.
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The material making up this former hill was much more easily eroded than thealluvialvalleyfloors which bounded it to both the north and south.
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The alluvial valleys in this area are mostly privately owned and used for livestock grazing and hay production.
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They can be found in high desert, grasslands, meadows, hillsides, broad alluvial valleys and floodplains.
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The upper and middle reaches are low gradient, alluvial valleys while the lower reach runs through a bouldered canyon.
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