Note the alluvial fans along the edge of the mountains . These fans grade into the salt pan that occupies much of the valley floor .
注意山边的冲积扇,这些冲积扇依次冲入占据谷底大部份的盐塘。
The process of changing the course of america 's greatest river is more glacial than alluvial .
改变全美最大河流走向的过程比冲积扇的形成还要缓慢
Yet the soft alluvial sediment of tokyo 's low-lying areas , it is now understood , is vulnerable to liquefaction , in which violent movement turns the soil to quicksand .
But , for those who study the tongue as it should be studied , that is to say , as geologists study the earth , slang appears like a veritable alluvial deposit .
Earlier mars reconnaissance orbiter imagery of gale crater , now home to nasa 's curiosity rover , had shown signs of what appeared to be something akin to an ' alluvial fan ' spreading downwards from the crater rim .
Tendai biti , the finance minister and an mdc man , says that in any case the government has not received a cent from what he describes as " the biggest find of alluvial diamonds in the history of mankind " .
Tendai biti , zimbabwe 's finance minister , has described the 60000-hectare marange diamond field in the country 's east as " the biggest find of alluvial diamonds in the history of mankind " .
The uplift on the black mountains is so fast that the alluvial fans ( fan-shaped deposits at the mouth of canyons ) there are small and steep compared to the huge alluvial fans coming off the panamint range .