#alluvium

• Alluvium — A secondary, regional, or archaic form of the noun 'aluviune'; a sedimentary mass consisting of silt, sand, gravel, and organic debris transported and deposited by running waters in floodplains, deltas, or at river mouths. In certain old agricultural documents, the term describes new land formed by fluvial accumulation at the edge of a property.
• Silt up — To deposit alluvium, to cover a piece of land or a riverbed with layers of silt, sand, and gravel brought by waters; to undergo a process of silting or sedimentary accumulation. In hydrotechnics, it describes the action by which a river modifies the dynamic relief of an area by dropping transported materials at points where current velocity decreases.
• Silting up — The act of depositing alluvium and its result; the natural or technically induced process through which a watercourse deposits sediments, leading to the rising of the riverbed or the covering of land with silt; silting up. As a plural form, it denotes the alluvial attributes or structures characterizing multiple floodplains or hydrographic basins.
• Alluvium — An alternative secondary, archaic, or regional form of the noun 'aluviune'; a sedimentary deposit composed of silt, sand, clay, and detrital gravel, transported by running waters and dropped in areas where the current velocity decreases. In old agricultural documents, the term referred to new strips of fertile land added to riverbanks following seasonal floods.
• Alluvium — A mass of silt, sand, gravel, and organic debris transported by running waters and deposited in riverbeds, floodplains, deltas, or at river mouths, at points where current velocity decreases. In a legal and structural sense, it represents the gradual and imperceptible increase of a riparian land through the natural input of sediments brought by a river.