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Definition of Rain-wash
1. Noun. The washing away of soil or other loose material by rain.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rain-wash
Literary usage of Rain-wash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"... and Glacial Rocks (Soil and Subsoil, Rock-rubble, rain-wash, etc., Blown Sand
and Dust, Conglomerate, Grit and Sandstone, Greywacke, Clay, Till, etc.). ..."
2. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"... and Glacial Rocks (Soil and Subsoil, Rock-rubble, rain-wash, etc., Blown Sand
and Dust, Conglomerate, Grit and Sandstone, Greywacke, Clay, Till, etc.). ..."
3. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1910)
"... including Subaerial and /Eolian, Sedimentary, and Glacial Rocks (Soil and
Subsoil, Rock-rubble, rain-wash, etc., Blown Sand and Dust, Laterite, ..."
4. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"Soil and rain-wash.—Under the present head come the deposits of rain-wash described
in the last chapter, and the surface soil formed partly by the breaking ..."
5. Peat: Essays on Its Origin, Uses and Distribution in Michigan by Charles Albert Davis (1907)
"Flooding Ity Rain Wash: Flooding by rain wash from higher ground, is a form of
contamination to which many otherwise good deposits of peat have been ..."
6. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"Rain Wash. —• It is a well-known fact that the wash of the rain continually
carries away the soil, moving it from higher to lower places. ..."
7. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"Rain wash is really the beginning of stream erosion and should be considered a
part of that process, which is treated in detail later. ..."
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