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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- engrailment, gracile,
gracility gradus grad- step aggradation, aggradational,
aggrade, antegrade, anterograde, centigrade, degradable, degradation, degradational...
- 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...
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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...
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mountains of Germany. A dry maar
results when a maar lake
dries out,
becomes aggraded or
silted up. An
example of the
latter is the
Eckfelder Maar. Near Steffeln...
- 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...
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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....
