It is a medium textured soil and is an alluvial soil deposited along flood plains.
The limestone is topped with sandy soils deposited as ancient beaches over millions of years as global sea levels rose and fell.
Ms. Lichtman pointed to a pile of fresh soil deposited by last year's flooding and a young cottonwood sprouting in it.
Alluvium - soil or sediments deposited by a river or other running water.
"Alluvial" describes rich, fertile soil deposited by rivers and streams.
The alluvial soil deposited by these rivers has created some of the most fertile plains in the world.
The main cause of this is the soil being deposited on the banks, with the rain water and landslides in the nearby mountains.
In the south and east, alluvial soils deposited by the Cikapundung river are mostly found.
It also grows in alluvial soils (soil deposited by rivers).
For many centuries, Pabna and Mymensingh were built on alluvial soil deposited by those rivers.