ALL meanings of eluviation
- noun eluviation (soil science, countable) The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall. 1
- noun eluviation (Countable Noun) (soil science) The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall. 0
- noun eluviation (Uncountable Noun) (geology) Creation of geological deposits (eluvial deposits) by in situ weathering or weathering plus gravitational movement or accumulation. 0
- noun eluviation the process by which material suspended in water is removed from one layer of soil to another by the action of rainfall or chemical decomposition 0
- noun eluviation the movement of various dissolved or suspended chemicals, minerals, etc. downward through the soil due to the movement of ground water 0