Alluvia are young soils created by sediments deposited along coastlines, in low-lying marshes and valleys, particularly extensive in river flood plains and estuaries. Thus, modern inland towns such as Pella or Ephesus and many others in ancient times were on or near the coast. As a technical term used by lawyers and agrimensores ( Surveyors: Cic. Orat. 1,173; Cod. lust. 7,41), adluvio refers to the increase in size through these natural processes of individual…
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Sauerwein, Friedrich (Heidelberg) and
Schanbacher, Dietmar (Dresden),
“Adluvio”, in:
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