Definition of Eluvial

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to eluvium. ¹

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Definition of Eluvial

1. pertaining to an eluvium [adj] - See also: eluvium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eluvial

elution
elution profile
elution volume
elutions
elutor
elutors
elutriate
elutriated
elutriates
elutriating
elutriation
elutriations
elutriator
elutriators
eluvia
eluvial (current term)
eluviate
eluviated
eluviates
eluviating
eluviation
eluviations
eluvium
eluviums
eluxated
eluxation
elvan
elvanite
elvanites
elvans

Literary usage of Eluvial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1894)
"The Asiatic Loess is in all probability partly glacial in origin, but may be also eluvial, diluvial, or alluvial; only in isolated regions, ..."

2. Economic Geology by Heinrich Ries (1916)
"A somewhat special type, called eluvial placers, originates by the weathering of gold-bearing ... eluvial placers are known in the southern Appalachians. ..."

3. The Mineral Deposits of South America by Joseph Theophilus Singewald (1919)
"The Madrono mine which is located in the granite consists of a stockwork of quartz veinlets and where the granite is decomposed can be worked as an eluvial ..."

4. The Deposits of the Useful Minerals & Rocks: Their Origin, Form, and Content by Franz Heinrich August Beyschlag, Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1914)
"... must be regarded as eluvial. The softer schistose material, surrendering more easily to the forces of disintegration and erosion than the more resistant ..."

5. Considerations on volcanos, the probable causes of their phenomena [&c.]. by George Poulett Scrope (1825)
"Thus producing alluvial, or rather eluvial, formations of considerable ... These aqueous or eluvial eruptions appear to play a great part among the ..."

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