Diluvial

It may also be remarked that, common as is the occurrence of diluvial animal bones in the muddy deposits of caverns, such remains have not hitherto been met with in the caves of the Neanderthal; and that the bones, which were covered by a deposit of mud not more than four or five feet thick, and without any protective covering of stalagmite, have retained the greatest part of their organic substance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It has even been supposed that in diluvial deposits the presence of ‘dendrites’ might be regarded as affording a certain mark of distinction between bones mixed with the diluvium at a somewhat later period and the true diluvial relics, to which alone it was supposed that these deposits were confined. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The amount of land necessary to yield sufficient water relates to annual rainfall, which varies from parched to diluvial locales. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Outside the kitchen, I could taste the air and know that a storm would be arriving in six days, catch a snowflake on my tongue and surmise when spring would come or discern the diluvial temperament of the river by sampling its waters. ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2003)

The Old Town occupies a sloping ridge or tail of diluvial matter, protected, in some subsidence of the waters, by the Castle cliffs which fortify it to the west. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The vapors gradually condensed in diluvial rains, which fell as if they had leapt from the necks of thousands of millions of seltzer water bottles. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This high authority maintained that the soil of Moulin Quignon was not diluvial at all, but was of much more recent formation; and, agreeing in that with Cuvier, he refused to admit that the human species could be contemporary with the animals of the quaternary period. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The novice who is trying to follow or to find a deep lead must fully understand that the present bed of the surface river may not, in fact seldom does, indicate the ancient watercourses long since buried either by volcanic or diluvial action, which contain the rich auriferous deposits for which he is seeking; and much judgment and considerable underground exploration are often required to decide on the true course of leads. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

But above the diluvial wreck of the Winchester estates there has arisen an estate far more royal and magnificent, and beneath a far-reaching bow of promise, sealed in magical security against a similar disaster. ❋ Various (N/A)

Moravia (Ovis argaloides Nehring), and of the diluvial strata near ❋ Various (N/A)

This summer the waters of Maine were diluvial, the feeding-grounds were swamped. ❋ Various (N/A)

Observations on the Organic Remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel attesting the Action of a Universal Deluge_, published in ❋ Various (N/A)

If all our breeds of cattle came from one stock, why not this stock from the auroch, which has had all the time between the diluvial and the historic periods in which to set off a variation perhaps no greater than the difference between some sorts of cattle? ❋ Various (N/A)

The plain of Biguglia, for instance, was formed by one of those vast inundations which have received the name of diluvial currents, and swept away a great number of species of animals. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)

"They are as emphatically drift implements, as any that have appeared in the diluvial matrix of France." ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)

Mr. Bakewell, however, observes, that the vast diluvial beds of gravel and clay, and the upper strata in Asia, have not yet been scientifically explored; and both sacred and profane writers agree in regarding the temperate regions of that continent as the cradle of the human race. ❋ Various (N/A)

It had been opened in the old red sandstone of the district, and was overtopped by a huge bank of diluvial clay, which rose over it in some places to the height of nearly thirty feet, and which at this time was rent and shivered, wherever it presented an open front to the weather, by a recent frost. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

If we allow, with Pictet, that Darwin's theory will very well serve for all that concerns the present epoch of the world's history, -- an epoch which this renowned palaeontologist regards as including the diluvial or quaternary period, -- then Darwin's first and foremost need in his onward course is a practicable road from this into and through the tertiary period, the intervening region between the comparatively near and the far remote past. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is not impossible that both diluvial races lived at the same era, so that crossing appeared, as would seem the case from the skulls found at Galley Hill and at Brünn. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)