alluviums

Third, the fans and outwash alluviums around the monoliths support a complex of open grassland, low trees and shrubs.

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia 2008

The effects of this glacial action and of the long periods of erosion preceding it and of other physiographic changes connected with its passing away, have most important bearings on the distribution and character of the gold-bearing alluviums of the province.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

"Because it is well known that animal life only existed on earth during the secondary period, when the sedimentary soil was formed by the alluviums, and thus replaced the hot and burning rocks of the primitive age."

Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866

In reference to this point, I may observe that although I was not able to fix with precision the exact bed in the volcanic mountain from which the rock containing the human bones was taken, M. Felix Robert has, nevertheless, after studying "the volcanic alluviums" of Denise, ascertained that, on the side of Cheyrac and the village of M.louteyre, blocks of tuff frequently occur exactly like the one in the museum.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

So extensive have been the discoveries of the works of man buried with the bones of the _Elephas primigenius_ and of cavern-bears and extinct hyenas, that we are forced to recognize the fact of the coexistence of man with those ancient animals, for the occurrence of deposits containing the bones of the two cannot any longer be regarded as doubtful; and certainly stone tools fashioned by man have been found so widely spread in the ancient alluviums and deposits of the post-Pliocene age, as to remove all doubt of the fact, and to destroy the objection that they might be local accidents of an equivocal character.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various