Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
diluvium .
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Examples
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Level reaches would draw the water and overflow the contiguous land; and would moreover soon be filled with diluvion.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908
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-- The geological action of the lake against the high banks of diluvion, at this spot, is very striking.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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-- The geological action of the lake against the high banks of diluvion, at this spot, is very striking.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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The soil is generally good, as that made by the decay of forests for thousands of years upon substrata, chiefly formed of alluvion or diluvion, the deposit from waters, must be.
Canada and the Canadians Volume I Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819
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