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Definition of Eluviation
1. Noun. (context: soil science countable) The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall ¹
2. Noun. (context: geology uncountable) Creation of geological deposits (eluvial deposits) by ''in situ'' weathering or weathering plus gravitational movement or accumulation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eluviation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eluviation
Literary usage of Eluviation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædic Dictionary of Photography: Containing Over 2,000 References by Walter E. Woodbury (1896)
"eluviation.—A term applied to the process of separating, by means of water, the
finer particles of a powder from the heavier ones. ..."
2. Ecology & Management of the Commerically Harvested American Matsutake Mushroom by David Hosford, David Pilz, Randy Molina, Michael Amaranthus (1997)
"... highly decomposed layer E = soil horizon of maximum eluviation EB = thin
transition layer B = soil horizon of maximum illuviation Figures 10 through 13 ..."
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