##  [Avulsion](/index.php/avulsion) 

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Definition

A sudden, perceptible change in a watercourse or shoreline—for example during a flood or rapid channel cut—that abruptly displaces land or the physical feature used to locate a parcel boundary without the slow depositional process known as accretion.