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alluvial fan

fan- or cone-shaped deposit of sediment crossed and built up by streams
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alluvial fan
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alluvial fan

Summary

alluvial fan ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (820 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • alluvial fan is a type of natural geographic object[2].
  • alluvial fan's Commons category is recorded as Alluvial fans[3].
  • alluvial fan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Alluvial fans[4].
  • alluvial fan's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000314[5].
  • alluvial fan's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[6].

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Definition and Type

alluvial fan is a type of natural geographic object[2].

Why It Matters

alluvial fan ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (820 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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