Meaning & use
Eluviation
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The downward movement of dissolved or suspended material out of the upper layer of soil, carried by percolating water.
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Eluviation strips minerals from the topsoil and deposits them in lower horizons.
Heavy rainfall accelerates eluviation, gradually leaching nutrients from the surface layer.
A note on using this word
Eluviation is paired with "illuviation," the corresponding process by which the leached material accumulates in a lower soil layer.
Words with a similar meaning
leaching
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Words with an opposite meaning
illuviation
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