Alluvial Fan
Alluvial Fan
(1) A fan-shaped deposit of generally coarse material created where a stream flows out onto a gentle plain; a geomorphologic feature characterized by a cone or fan-shaped deposit of clay, silt, sand, gravel, and boulders that have been eroded from mountain slopes, transported by flood flows, and deposited on the valley floor.
(2) A geomorphologic feature characterized by a cone or fan-shaped deposit of boulders, gravel, and fine sediments that have been eroded from mountain slopes, transported by flood flows, and then deposited on the valley floors, and which is subject to flash flooding, high velocity flows, debris flows, erosion, sediment movement and deposition, and channel migration.
(3) (Montane) A semiconical, or fan-shaped constructional, major landform that is built of more-or-less stratified alluvium with or without debris flow deposits, that occurs on the upper margin of a piedmont slope, and that has its apex at a point source of alluvium debauching from a mountain valley into an inter-montane basis. Also, a generic term for like forms in various other landscapes.
An alluvial fan is a fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing stream flattens, slows, and spreads typically at the exit of a canyononto a flatter plain. A convergence of neighboring alluvial fans into a single apron of deposits against a slope is called a bajada, or compound alluvial fan
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