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Plate 14.12 An alluvial fan, located where a steep tributary
stream sweeps coarse debris into a Pennine valley. It also
provides a dry, elevated site suitable for farm buildings and
improved pasture.
Photo: Ken Addison.
Plate 14.13 'Fanglomerate' - alluvial fan conglomerate,
composed of massive cemented boulders and gravels
deposited by turbulent Pleistocene river and debris flows -
emanating from a canyon in the San Bernadino mountains in
southern California, USA. Recent cannibalisation by modern
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