verb
- present participle of eluviate; to undergo or cause the removal and transport of soil or rock material by water percolating through the ground
Usage: geology; soil science
Examples
- The heavy rainfall is eluviating minerals from the upper soil layers.
- Eluviating processes gradually deplete the topsoil of essential nutrients.
- Water percolating through the bedrock is eluviating dissolved minerals downward.
- The geologist studied how eluviating affects soil composition in humid climates.
- Eluviating and illuviating work together in soil formation.