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An Alluvial Fan

An Alluvial Fan
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Description: An Alluvial Fan
Tributaries can deposit sediment in alluvial fans where they reach local base levels.
Where the stream enters the wide valley its gradient abruptly diminishes, the discharge
spreads, and its sediment (alluvium) is deposited.

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