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- noun geology The
washing in ofsoil (into a lake etc) from elsewhere.
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Examples
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These may allow the inwash of surface dirt and also may interfere with the mining.
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It is used as an argument of age that as these sites are on hilltops where there can be no inwash, this depth must indicate a very remote period for their construction.
Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 Gerard Fowke 1894
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