diluvium

American  

[dih-loo-vee-uhm] / dɪˈlu vi əm /

Or diluvion

noun

Geology Now Rare.

• diluvia,
  plural
• diluviums
  plural

1. a coarse surficial deposit formerly attributed to a general deluge but now regarded as glacial drift.

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diluvium British  

/ daɪˈluːvɪəm, dɪ- /

noun

1. geology a former name for glacial drift See drift

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• diluvia
  plural
• diluviums
  plural

Etymology

Origin of diluvium

1810–20; < Latin dīluvium flood; see deluge

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

diluvium

There are cases where alluvial deposits rest upon the diluvium, and from the depth of these it has been attempted to calculate the time that has elapsed since the former of these actions was resumed.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh

Then, after another long period, these appear, in what is called the tertiary period; until, at last, some remains of man are found, in the diluvium, or gravel.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

This alluvium rests on the red marl-clay, or mineral diluvium; the latter of which is uniformly found on penetrating it.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Freetown lies upon a gentle declivity, a slope of laterite and diluvium washed down from the higher levels.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton

But, when the diluvium ceased, and the rivers Rhone and Durance assumed approximately their present character, a change of procedure took place.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould