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alluvion

[ə′lüv·ē·ən]
(geology)
alluvium
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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It is worth noting that Emerson set down his journal entry about the "fatal blunder" in the same year in which Thoreau, in the second chapter of Walden, told his readers: Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge out feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a point d'appui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state....
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From a geologic point of view, alluvion is the main formation of the basin, some of the other formations being neogenes and clastic sediments.
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