File:ALLUVIUM.JPG

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Alluvium is loose gravel, sand, silt, or clay deposited by current or past streams.

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Description

Alluvium is loose gravel, sand, silt, or clay deposited by current or past streams.

Source

The image appears on a website entitled, "Earthquake Glossary - alluvium" at url=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=alluvium.

Date

July 24, 2012

Author

Sharon Reynolds, Arizona State University

Rationale

No free use or Public Domain image known to show alluvium as loose gravel, sand, silt, and/or clay deposited by current or past streams, specifically in and on the exposed flood plain, including previous channels.

Permission

Fair Use, although USGS images are usually PD, Sharon Reynolds and Arizona State University may not have agreed to this. Per the author, the image is likely restricted to education, teaching, and research.

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current01:12, 3 December 2014Thumbnail for version as of 01:12, 3 December 2014298 × 336 (20 KB)Marshallsumter (discuss | contribs)Alluvium is loose gravel, sand, silt, or clay deposited by current or past streams. Category:Sedimentology images