Relating to or consisting of eluvium; describing material formed by in-place weathering of rock.
From Latin 'eluvium' with the adjectival suffix '-al,' describing the characteristics and processes related to surface weathering and material accumulation.
Eluvial soils are treasure maps for geologists—the concentration of rare minerals in weathered material can reveal exactly what kind of parent rock lies beneath and sometimes even where ore deposits exist.
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