 ALLUVIUM. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.  Annual Report on the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania - Page 87by Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. State Geologist (1836-1841) - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 358 pages
...landslips. We restrict the term alluvium to such transported matter as has been thrown down, whether by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. The alluvium of the bed of a river does not often contain any animal or vegetable remains, for the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 570 pages
...ALLUVIAL. The adjective of alluvium, which see. ALLUVION. Synonymous with alluvium, which see. ALLUVIUM. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported...waters of lakes or seas. Etym., Alluo, to wash upon. For a further explanation of the term, as used in this work, see vol. ii. chap, xiv., and vol. iii.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 562 pages
...has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanentty submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Etym., Alluo, to wash upon. For a further explanation of the term, as used in this work, see vol. ii. chap, xiv., and vol. iii.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 420 pages
...ALLUVIAL. The adjective of alluvium, which see. ALLUVION. Synonymous with alluvium, which see. ALLUVIUM. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported...waters of lakes or seas. Etym., alluo, to wash upon. For a further explanation of the term, as used in this work, see Vol. II. p. 146., and Vol. III. p.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 420 pages
...ALLUVIAL. The adjective of alluvium, which see. ALLUVION. Synonymous with alluvium, which see. ALLUVIUM. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported...waters of lakes or seas. Etym., alluo, to wash upon. For a further explanation of the term, as used in this work, see Vol. II. p. 146., and Vol. III. p.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 422 pages
...ALLUVIAL. The adjective of alluvium, which see. ALLUVION. Synonymous wilh alluvium, which see. ALLUVIUM. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported...submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Etym., alluu, to wash upon. For a further explanation of the term, as used in this work, see Vol. II. p. 146.,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 440 pages
...organic bodies in alluvium, by which I mean such transported matter as has been thrown down, whether by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas,>^-I say permanently submerged, in order to distinguish between alluviums and regular subaqueous... | |
 | Virginia Geological Survey - Geology - 1836 - 552 pages
...GLOSSARY OF GEOLOGICAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC TERMS. FROM LYELL'S PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY. Alluvium. — Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Amorphous. — Bodies devoid of regular form. Amygdaloid. — One of the forms of the Trap-rocks, in... | |
 | geologocal survey of pennsylvania - Geology - 1838 - 446 pages
...ASD OTBEE gC1EVTiriC TBHKS EKfPLOTKD IN THIS REPORT. KXTRACTED FROM LYELL's PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Eiym. alluo, to wash upon. Anticlinal Axis. If a ranga of hills, or a valley, be composed of strata,... | |
 | George Roberts - 1839 - 208 pages
...a smell resembling garlick. ALLUVIUM (attuo, to wash upon) ; earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other matter, which has been washed away and thrown down...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. The French style alluvium terrains de transport. ALUM BAY ; a well-known locality in the western part... | |
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