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is an archaic term applied during the 1800s to widespread surficial deposits of sediments that could not be explained by the historic action of rivers and seas. Diluvium was initially argued to have been deposited by the action of extraordinary floods of vast extent, specifically the
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to be one of these geological processes no longer in existence. "Diluvium" eventually became widely used in Europe, and was retained even into the 20th century for glacial deposits, long after the
Noachian Flood explanation was quietly abandoned. Buckland defined
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Wells, D.A., Cross, C.R., Nichols, W.R., Trowbridge, J., Kneeland, S. and Bliss, G., 1860. "The Annual of
Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art." Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, New York. 430
158:. The largest of these lakes, Chuya and Kuray, had volumes of water in the hundreds of cubic kilometers, and their discharge in peak hydrograph flow rate exceeded the maximum rates of the well-known Pleistocene
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as surficial sediments laid down by processes currently active and observable, such as those associated with existing streams and coastal environments. In
Germany, diluvium was also known as the
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Reliquiae
Diluvianae, or Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel, and on Other Geological Phenomena, Attesting the Action of an Universal Deluge.
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von Cotta, B., Noel, R.R., 1865. "Geology and
History: A Popular Exposition of all that Is Known of the Earth and its Inhabitants in Pre-Historic Times." Trübner & Co., London.
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Glacier-dammed lakes and geological work of glacial superfloods in the Late
Pleistocene, Southern Siberia, Altai Mountains
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Colluvium: Definition, differentiation, and possible suitability for reconstructing
Holocene climate data.
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Sedimentary effects of cataclysmic late
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Properties of deluvial soils in Poland and
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The colluvium and alluvium problem: Historical review and current state of definitions.
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Elsevier's dictionary of geography: in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German.
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The fossils of the South Downs, or illustrations of the geology of Sussex
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Giant current ripples in the Kuray Basin, Altai, Russia
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441:Baužienė, I., Świtoniak, M., Charzyński, P., 2008.
264:New York, Elsevier Scientific Publishing. 1072 pp.
362:Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado. 12 pp.
214: – Depositional forms in channeled scablands
220: – Material displaced across a soil profile
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80:. Diluvium was defined as sediments, including
1561:Withrow Moraine and Jameson Lake Drumlin Field
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300:. London, England, L. Relfe. 327 pp. (p. 274)
287:1st ed. John Murray, London, England. 303 pp.
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150:giant glacier-dammed lakes such as the
1489:Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail
1453:Chippewa Moraine State Recreation Area
409:Miller, B.A. and Juilleret, J., 2020.
316:New York, John Wiley and Sons. 589 pp.
260:Kotlyakov, V. and Komarova, A., 2006.
208: – End product of rock weathering
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107:. Both were grouped together in the
1495:Ice Age National Scientific Reserve
342:Rudoy, A.N. and Baker, V.R., 1993.
134:, Little Yaloman Village, July 2011
425:Leopold, M. and Völkel, J., 2007.
395:Izvestiia Geologicheskogo komiteta
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1483:Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area
126:Diluvial terraces in the central
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1428:Origin of the Oak Ridges Moraine
1082:Template:Periglacial environment
1491:, Idaho, Oregon and Washington
103:and alluvium was known as the
1:
1735:Huelmo–Mascardi Cold Reversal
115:, which is equivalent to the
1156:Glacial history of Minnesota
1519:Kettle Moraine State Forest
1422:Lion's Head Provincial Park
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1665:Penultimate Glacial Period
1392:Big Rock (glacial erratic)
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1730:Late Glacial Interstadial
1509:, Minnesota and Wisconsin
1386:Arrowhead Provincial Park
1161:List of prehistoric lakes
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1685:Holocene glacial retreat
1477:Glacial Lakes State Park
1416:Foothills Erratics Train
430:Quaternary International
331:Quaternary International
1725:Bølling–Allerød warming
1465:Devil's Lake State Park
1434:Ovayok Territorial Park
1123:Continental glaciations
1567:Yosemite National Park
1471:Glacial Lake Wisconsin
1410:Eskers Provincial Park
1398:Cypress Hills (Canada)
1196:Timeline of glaciation
144:catastrophic outbursts
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1710:Quaternary glaciation
1645:Quaternary glaciation
1543:Mill Bluff State Park
1507:Interstate State Park
1321:Giant current ripples
1136:Cordilleran ice sheet
1020:Giant current ripples
414:Earth-Science Reviews
212:Giant current ripples
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113:Quartäre Eiszeitalter
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23:Diluvial terraces on
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1720:Wisconsin glaciation
1675:Last Glacial Maximum
1191:Post-glacial rebound
1146:Last Glacial Maximum
1141:Laurentide ice sheet
390:Pavlov, A.P., 1888.
349:, 85(1-4), pp.53-62.
333:, 87(1), pp.119-140.
296:Mantell, G.A.,1822.
283:Buckland, W., 1823.
66:Reliquiae Diluvianae
1705:Pre-Illinoian Stage
1670:Last Glacial Period
1459:Coteau des Prairies
1370:Greenland ice sheet
957:Moraine-dammed lake
784:Subglacial eruption
445:Žemės Ūkio Mokslai.
358:Lee, Keenan, 2004.
347:Sedimentary Geology
325:Rudoy, A.N., 2002.
312:Flint, R F., 1947.
239:Glossary of Geology
60:published the term
1750:4.2 kiloyear event
1745:8.2 kiloyear event
1680:Mousterian Pluvial
1412:, British Columbia
789:Subglacial volcano
772:Volcanic relations
432:, 162, pp.133-140.
397:, 7(7), pp. 78-96.
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56:In 1822 and 1823,
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447:15(3), pp. 29–35.
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117:Quaternary Period
64:in his monograph
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1525:Lake Bonneville
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1244:U-shaped valley
1234:Roche moutonnée
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1166:Proglacial lake
1151:Canadian Shield
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972:Sevetti moraine
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105:Postglazialzeit
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1067:Glaciology
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982:Till plain
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1418:, Alberta
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