Sentences with word «alluvial»

«LA is not a desert,» insisted author D.J. Waldie, referring to the water table in layers of alluvial fan underneath the metropolis, but you'd never know it.

Continue by coach past vineyards built on rich alluvial plains, which produce world class wines, to Nelson.

By the end of the year it had attracted around 1 500 gold prospectors with their sluice boxes, in search of alluvial gold along the banks of the creek.

A CEO's epiphany: In 1979, de Soto started a company to exploit alluvial gold deposits in Peru.

The park is characterized by gum oak and cypress trees in alluvial soils built up frequent flooding.

People would have lived near coasts and estuaries just as they do now, so any evidence of settlements, sizeable or otherwise, is under tens of metres of alluvial deposits and water.

In 2011 Norfolk Southern launched Trees and Trains, a $ 5.6 million partnership with ACR member GreenTrees to restore 10,000 acres in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley by planting six million hardwoods & cottonwoods.

Dr Bawumia know very well that part of the reasons why the Zimbabwean people are languishing in poverty with low infrastructure development in many parts of its rural zones is this wholesale handing out of the country's mineral resources over the last three decades costing the country millions of jobs.Is Dr Bawumia aware that Zimbabwe has runout of alluvial diamonds at a time when the country has been allowed to sell its gems on the global market.

It is situated in the beautiful Tarana valley of the central tablelands, and the rich alluvial river soil is being used to grow wine grapes.

In addition to in - house emission reduction activities, in 2011 Norfolk Southern launched Trees and Trains, a $ 5.6 million partnership with ACR member GreenTrees to restore 10,000 acres in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley by planting six million hardwoods & cottonwoods.

The forests on alluvial plains are almost pure redwood forest, but the forests on the slopes also contain Coast Douglas - fir.

«Uranium in framboidal pyrite from a naturally bioreduced alluvial sediment.»

Soil and conditions are typical of AVAs with alluvial ancient riverbed cobbled clay.

Dear Partners, Alluvial Fund, LP was up modestly in the first quarter, returning 2.7 %.

The property has since become legend for its singular terroir, characterized by alluvial soils that proved almost unmistakable in any wine produced from its grapes.

Hyperion is not just tall, but a true survivor, living on a hillside, rather than the more - typical alluvial flat, with 96 percent of the surrounding area having been logged of its original coast redwood growth.

The hotel sits on the edge of what was the richest alluvial goldfield in the world.

Roughly translated as «Land of Bogs,» the area is, in Ruukel's words, «a vast complex of raised bogs, wet alluvial forests with fens, transition mires and unregulated rivers with flood - plain and wooded meadows.»

During the 1990s, and into this decade, rebel armies in parts of Africa exploited alluvial diamond fields to finance wars against legitimate governments.

In 1967, the rocky alluvial fan was acquired by the Uptons, who planted it the following year.

It would be anchored on Chongming Island, China, one of the largest alluvial islands in the world, which has been steadily expanding because of heavy silt runoff at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Virtually all the action during previous decades had focused on southern Iraq, in the low - lying alluvial plain that merges with the Persian Gulf.

Some sections have held onto a paltry 10 - 20 % of their former alluvial floodplains, kept available as flood zones.

Evidence from the Al Sibetah alluvial fan sequence indicates that during insolation maxima, increased monsoon rainfall led to the widespread activation of drainage systems and grassland development throughout regions that were important for the dispersal of early human populations.

Its wide alluvial basins and black mountain ridges are a haven of tranquillity to the northeast of California's most frenetic city.

Explore the gracious city of Ballarat, built on the riches of the world's largest alluvial gold deposit.

High concentrations of uranium in pyrite, including framboidal pyrite in naturally bioreduced alluvial — or silty — sediments, have not been previously reported.

In the early years, prospectors sought alluvial gold, which was found in or around streams and for which the requisite capital equipment was a pan and a shovel.

Vancouver based, Odin Mining has the Cangrejos gold project in El Oro province, southern Ecuador, 30 km southeast of the port city of Machala which Odin Mining identified as the source of the Biron alluvial gold deposit which yielded 69,000 ounces.

These sites enjoy ideal eastern exposures, well - drained alluvial soils and mild summer afternoons, resulting in uniform fruit ripening and cabernets that are both opulent and elegant

The 2014 vintage of our flagship Cabernet reflects all the distinct charactaristics of our vineyard sources, ranging from our bench land site in Yountville to northern St. Helena, to western alluvial fans in Rutherford, to mountain fruit from Spring Mountain and the cool volcanic growing region of Coombsville.

On the environment, an Akufo - Addo government, he said, would implement a policy that will lead to the effective management of forest reserves, the recovery of millions of acres of land devastated by open - cast and alluvial mining, and the protection of water bodies, stressing that «protecting our environment is a necessity, not an option».

Evolution of alluvial mudrock forced by early land plants.

Here we see a vast alluvial cone between the Altun and Kunlun mountains on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert.

Parton and colleagues present a unique alluvial fan aggradation record from southeast Arabia spanning the past approx. 160,000 years.

The Madre de Dios region has a long history of small - scale alluvial gold - mining, but the rise in international gold prices in the past decade has brought a boom in the activity.

When comparing the distribution of red and yellow - tagged buildings to the underlying sedimentary basin, to the pre-1950 development of Napa and to the recent alluvial geology of Napa Valley, the most severe damage correlates to the age of the buildings — pre-1950 construction — and their location within the basin.

And orbital imaging has shown that the nearby slope in Gale was surely a so - called alluvial fan; the cone - shaped feature formed when sediment - laden water spilled down the crater wall.

With 3 million hectares of good alluvial land, half of which can be irrigated easily, Mali could become a breadbasket.

Easily available alluvial sand and gravel reserves may be running out, but the situation can be easily managed.

Findings from extensive alluvial fan deposits indicate that drainage system activation occurred during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 (ca. 160 — 150 ka), MIS 5 (ca. 130 — 75 ka), and during early MIS 3 (ca. 55 ka).

But the new study shows a strong correlation between elevated arsenic concentrations and high soil pH. Infiltration of irrigation water through alkaline topsoil and young alluvial sediments may thus contribute to arsenic enrichment in groundwater.

Collection wells have also been installed north - up - gradient - of the tailings ponds to remove alluvial ground water before it flows into the contaminated portions of the aquifer underneath the tailings.

In fact, it is alluvial silt that washed down from the surrounding mountains and deposited on the shores.

Luminescence dating of Pleistocene alluvial sediments affected by the Alhama.