alluvial cone

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   a fan-shaped deposit where a fast flowing stream flattens out

   Synonymsalluvial fan

   Broadergeological phenomenon

Questions about alluvial cone

What does alluvial cone mean?

alluvial cone means "a fan-shaped deposit where a fast flowing stream flattens out".

What is another word for alluvial cone?

Close synonyms include alluvial fan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alluvial cone a common word?

alluvial cone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.