alluvial valley floors
Defined in 1 place of the United States Code.
“alluvial valley floors” means the unconsolidated stream laid deposits holding streams where water availability is sufficient for subirrigation or flood irrigation agricultural activities but does not include upland areas which are generally overlain by a thin veneer of colluvial deposits composed chiefly of debris from sheet erosion, deposits by unconcentrated runoff or slope wash, together with talus, other mass movement accumulation and windblown deposits;
Source
- 1994–present30 U.S.C. § 1291Mineral Lands and Mining · Definitions · for the purposes of this chapter