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clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
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an ancient river-washed rock and gravel bar that may be thousands of feet from the nearest stream, creek, or river
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Clay, sand, gravel etc, removed from a parent rock by water and weathering agents and deposited at a distance.
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Where gems that have been dislodged from their primary deposit by rains or melt water and deposited at the bottom of a creek or river bed.
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an accumulation of the sediment deposited by flowing water, such as in a riverbed or delta.
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a fan-shaped land deposit at the mouth of a stream
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