diluvium

The name is derived from the Latin diluvium (meaning deluge or flood).

This is the largest kofun group in Japan, situated on a 70-meter hill composed of diluvium.

By the way, how do you and Buckland account for the "tails" of diluvium in Scotland?

A third of a million turns might unwind enough days to carry it back to the Diluvium Ignis.

He concluded that the land had indeed risen, and referred to loose rock deposits as "part of the long disputed Diluvium".

As for the world, Post me diluvium."

It was developed by a preceding race which became extinct during the Diluvium Ignis."

Tails of diluvium, in Scotland.

Study diluvium: general provisions.

It is bordered by a silvery beach and areas of flat ground consisting of coraline diluvium.

In fact such extinct mammals were typically found in diluvium as it was then called (distinctive gravel or boulder clay).

Because this theory could account for the presence of diluvium, the word drift became the preferred term for the loose, unsorted material, today called till.

This community has species of boreal origin, which indicates the south border of the diluvium glacial layers of the Balkan Peninsula.

The term "diluvium" in the meaning of A. N. Rudoy has become accepted, and the process of diluvial morpholithogenesis can be found in modern textbooks.

But the heritage of the Diluvium Ignis was something he preferred to forget for the moment, and Mrs. Grales was one of its more conspicuous heirs.

Le Diluvium plus récent ou sableux et le système Eémien Archives Teyler, Ser.

William Buckland had led attempts in Britain to adapt the geological theory of catastrophism to account for erratic boulders and other "diluvium" as relics of the Biblical flood.

Reading your book has brought vividly before my mind the state of knowledge, or rather ignorance, half a century ago, when all superficial matter was classed as diluvium, and not considered worthy of the attention of a geologist.

In this community the endemic plant of diluvium origin Festuca kajmakcalana, has its soil residence as well as the carnation Dianthus myrtinervius, which is a rare endemic relict on Pelister.

Guilford had studied much of it before, though Finch buttressed his argument with a wealth of detail: the one hundred classifications of drift and diluvium; geological wheels in which extinct beasts were depicted in neat, separate categories.

Diluvium relicts are Carex curvula and Gnapalium supinum which are of particular scientific interest along with numerous post-dilluvial plants such as Festuca kajmakcalana, Dianthus kajmakcalana, Crocus pelistericus and Pingula leptoceras.

Mr. Darwin speaks of the tails of diluvium in Scotland extending from the protected side of a hill, of which the opposite side, facing the direction from which the ice came, is marked by grooves and striae (loc.

His essays begin with short islands of statements, but rapidly these are surrounded by an ocean of footnotes, an erudite diluvium of quotations and citations, resembling the style of the modern novel The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker.

In the late 20th century Russian geologist Alexei Rudoy proposed the term "diluvium" for description of deposits created as a result of catastrophic outbursts of Pleistocene giant glacier-dammed lakes in intermontane basins of the Altai.

Around 1825 both Lyell and Sedgwick had supported William Buckland's Catastrophism which postulated diluvialism to reconcile findings with the Biblical account of Noah's ark, but by 1830 evidence had shown them that the "diluvium" had come from a series of local processes.