Alluvium
the act or process of washing away soil, gravel, rocks, etc., and depositing the débris in other In geology the form of the word is and depositing the débris in other places; also, the materials thus deposited. In geology the form of the word is Alluvium is especially employed to cene and recent periods. The most typidesignate the transported matter laid cal example of alluvium may be seen in down by fresh water during the Pleistothe deltas of the Nile, Ganges, Mississippi, and many other rivers. Some rivers have alluviums of different ages on the slopes down into their valleys.
The more modern of these belong to the recent period, as do the organic and other remains which they contain, while the older (as those of the Somme, other remains which they contain, while Pleistocene age, inclose more or less the older (as those of the Somme, Thames, Ouse, etc.), which are of the remains of mammals either locally or everywhere extinct. alluvium, or, rarely, alluvion.
Volcanic alluvium is sand, ashes, etc., which, after being emitted from a vol cano, come under the action of water, and are by it redeposited, as was the case with the materials which entered and filled the interior of houses of Pompeii. case with the materials which entered by inundations of the sea, such as those which have from time to time overflowed the eastern coast of India.
In English law, the form of the word ALMA generally used is alluvion, and in Scotch law alluvio. In both of these the enactment is, that if an "eyott," or little island, arise in a river midway between the two banks, it belongs in common to the proprietors on the opposite banks; but if it arise nearer one side, then it belongs to the proprietor whose land it there adjoins.
ALMANAC ceiving permission from the Spanish court to conquer for himself a special province, he marched on Chile in 1536, penetrated as far as the Coquimbo, and returned in 1537, just when the Peruvians had flown to arms and shut up the Spaniards in Cuzco and Lima. As these towns lay S. of Pizarro's district, they were claimed by Almagro. He dispersed the Peruvian army before Cuzco, and advanced against Lima. But on April 6, 1538, he was defeated in a desperate engagement with the Spaniards under Pizarro near Cuzco; and on the 26th he was strangled in prison. His half-caste son, Diego, collecting some hundreds of his father's followers, stormed Pizarro's palace, and slew him (1541); then proclaimed himself captain-general of Peru; but, defeated in a bloody battle of Chupas, Sept. 16, 1542, he was executed along with 40 of his companions.