The cross section begins at the top of the Nuomuhong
alluvial fan in the south and extends to the Amunike Mountain piedmont in the north.
'Fortunately, communities living on those
alluvial fans had been warned and evacuated.
The fault affects two different units of
alluvial fan deposits: units D and C, from younger to older.
We are blessed to be in Rutherford, on an
alluvial fan, and close to the Mayacamas."
Quantitative mapping of arid
alluvial fan surfaces using field spectrometer and hyperspectral remote sensing.
The MUZ site is underlain by Holocene unconsolidated stream deposits and Pliocene and Pleistocene
alluvial fan deposits of Siwalik group.
Curiosity landed at the toe of an
alluvial fan, and as Grotzinger explains,
alluvial fans are deposits made by liquid water.
If we look more broadly in Gale Crater, we can see that there is a prominent feature that geologists call an
alluvial fan.
The imagery shows an
alluvial fan of material washed down from the rim, streaked by many apparent channels, sitting uphill of the new finds.
The site is between the north rim of Gale Crater and the base of Mount Sharp on the downslope of an
alluvial fan.
Accumulation processes have a lower manifestation, especially, in creeks confluence area with the Valsan river mouth and its tributaries valleys as
alluvial fan. Slope processes are the following: gullying, torrentiality and run-off.
These processes of alterations in the landscape are intense in the
alluvial fan of the River Taquari (Mercante et.