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The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

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  1. n. The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
  2. n. the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations
  3. The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
  4. The process by which small particles of fine soils andsediments aggregate into larger lumps.
  5. n. the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations