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Definition of Alluvial fan
1. Noun. A fan-shaped deposit where a fast flowing stream flattens out.
Definition of Alluvial fan
1. Noun. A cone-shaped heap of alluvium deposited by a river. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alluvial Fan
Literary usage of Alluvial fan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... has here built a large alluvial fan between the villages of Kienholz and
Hofstetten, on which it from time to time spreads floods of stone and gravel, ..."
2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1907)
"Madrone station on the Southern Pacific Railway is at the southwestern edge of
this alluvial fan, and is on the watershed at its lowest point. ..."
3. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1919)
"An alluvial fan is the same as an alluvial cone, except that it has a lower angle
of slope ... The union of several such fans makes a compound alluvial fan, ..."
4. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"... the Sierra Nevadas and the Coast Ranges, it drops its material and builds an
alluvial fan, which has at present reached a radius of about 40 miles. ..."
5. College Physiography by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin (1914)
"The size of the alluvial fan varies greatly, from little deposits but a few square
inches or square feet in area, where rain-born rills descend a steep ..."
6. Elementary Physical Geography by Ralph Stockman Tarr (1895)
"An alluvial fan. There are numerous ways in which these may be caused. They are
sometimes merely temporary deposits, being formed at the same time that the ..."
7. New Physical Geography by Ralph Stockman Tarr (1908)
"114), for example, is caused by the low alluvial fan of King River, which descends
from the ... The large, delta-like alluvial fan at the mouth of the ..."
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