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fluvial

Of or pertaining to streams or rivers. A fluvial deposit is sedimentary material laid down by a stream or river, such as a sandstone or conglomerate (coarse-grained clastic sedimentary rock composed of rounded pebbles of pre-existing rock cemented in a fine-grained sand or clay matrix).



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