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Definition of Eluvial
1. pertaining to an eluvium [adj] - See also: eluvium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eluvial
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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