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Aggradation (or alluviation) is the term used in
geology for the
increase in land elevation,
typically in a
river system, due to the
deposition of sediment...
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reaction processes—to the
minerals from
which the
aggraded crystals developed. One
common form of
aggrading neomorphism is
called porphyroid neomorphism....
- Lake Manchar. In
response to the
levees construction, the
river has been
aggrading rapidly over the last 20
years leading to
breaches upstream of barrages...
- and thus
testify to the
widespread erosion of this
region before it was
aggraded. The
southern section of the
Great Plains,
between latitudes 35.5° and...
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spread into
broader channels and
deposited some of
their load, and thus
aggraded their courses.
Local sheets or
aprons of
gravel and sand are
spread more...
- the river, the
flood plain is
often swampy,
unless its
surface is
there aggraded by the
tributary streams. For this
reason Louisiana,
Arkansas and Mississippi...
- 10 km of the
Eurotas flows was not
there in antiquity. The
Eurotas has
aggraded the
innermost bay of the gulf. The old
coastline can be
approximated by...
- north,
appear to be
heavily aggraded with
mountain waste. Others,
mostly in the south, are
valleys also
heavily aggraded by
mountain erosion. The structure...
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sandstone and
mudstone of the
formation likely formed as
sediments were
aggraded by a
system of
river channels that
emptied towards the west into the Tethys...
- stronghold, and now (since 1993) a
nature reserve. The lake
continued to
aggrade (an
increase in land elevation, in this case of the lake bed, due to the...
