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Two Contrasted Types of Alluvial Deposit: with an Illustration from the Rheidol Valley, Cardiganshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

John Challinor
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In the lower parts of its course a river deposits material derived from the upper parts, this deposition being due to loss of velocity. As a deduction it seems to follow that this alluvial deposit (using the term “alluvial” in a rather wide sense) should occur as two strongly contrasted types as regards size of particles.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 83 , Issue 4 , August 1946 , pp. 162 - 164
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

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1 The writer is indebted to Mr. A. S. Kennard for kindly drawing his attention to those in Whitaker's Geology of London (Mem. Geol. Surv., 1889), in Spurrell's paper in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association (1889) and in several papers in the Essex Naturalist about the turn of the century.Google Scholar