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eluvial

[ē′lüv·ē·əl]
(geology)
Of, composed of, or relating to eluvium.
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The capacity of cat-ion exchange in grey-humus and eluvial horizons is 23-28 mg-[micro]Eq/100 g of soil.
Gold occurs primarily in quartz veins and as placers in soil (eluvial) and stream sediments (alluvial).
The other major garnet deposits - located in western Australia and southern India - are made up of eluvial garnet, which is more fine than Sudbury's solid variety.
(2000) indicated that the expansive soil in the area belongs to eluvial class fissured clay.
A significant proportion is formed by Quaternary fluvial and eluvial sediments of the Odra and Ostravice Rivers and loess sediments.
Sydney, Australia, April 13, 2012 - (ABN Newswire) - Lithex Resources Limited (ASX:LTX) is pleased to announce the completion of the 25 hole RC drilling program at the Pegmatite Gully and Eluvial Gully prospects, part of the Company's Moolyella Project, located near Marble Bar, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Plummer has visited or consulted on over 200 alluvial and eluvial operations around the world, and has developed a keen sense for what equipment is necessary for efficient operations in different mining situations.
Unidade de coberturas arenosas, com area de 222, 77 [km.sup.2], sao areas degradadas em virtude da exploracao de sedimentos do horizonte (E) eluvial dos solos, destinado a construcao civil.
The soil of the parcel had been classified, following Embrapa's nomenclature (1999), as hydromorphic spodosols, quartzarenic neosols and organosols, variations being observed in relation to the depth of the eluvial horizon, that condition different levels of soil moisture (Gomes et al., 2007).
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