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  • Forest patches dominated by Ricinodendron rautanenii are strongly associated with the Baikiaea plurijuga forests but found on more alluvially influenced soils towards the rivers, with trees up to 12 m tall.

    Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands 2008

  • It is a distinctive red-orange color totally different from the dark alluvially-deposited soils that surround it.

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • It is a distinctive red-orange color totally different from the dark alluvially-deposited soils that surround it.

    Crowley's Ridge Nature Center 2005

  • "Evidently then," continued the professor, "the atoll is simply an annular terminal moraine of detritus shed alluvially into the sea, thus leaving a geosyncline of volcanic ash embedded with an occasional trilobite and the fragments of scoria, upon which we now stand."

    The Cruise of the Kawa 1911

  • A curious isolated volcanic boulder split in two was then observed in the stream, while the banks were of alluvially deposited conglomerate.

    Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • It's amazing really, they are the descendants of the slaves bought to work in the gold mines by the conquistadors, who had traditionally mined the way that they do, alluvially, panning effectively, ever since they got their freedom from slavery.

    The Guardian World News Kate Carter 2011

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