Usually means: Accumulation of minerals from leaching.
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  1. illuviation: Merriam-Webster
  2. illuviation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illuviation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. illuviation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. illuviation: Wiktionary
  6. illuviation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. illuviation: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. illuviation: Dictionary.com
  9. Illuviation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. illuviation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. illuviation: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. illuviation: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (illuviation)

▸ noun:  (geology) The accumulation of suspended material and soluble compounds leached from an overlying stratum

Similar:
eluviation, diluviation, argilluviation, fluviation, colluvies, pluviation, sluicing, cheluviation, siltation, liquefaction, more...

Opposite:
deluviation, eluviation

Phrases:
zone of illuviation, more...

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Similar:
eluviation, diluviation, argilluviation, fluviation, colluvies, pluviation, sluicing, cheluviation, siltation, liquefaction, more...

Opposite:
deluviation, eluviation

Phrases:
zone of illuviation, more...



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