The advocates of the diluvial origin of petrifactions soon found themselves hard pressed with the question, how these relics could be scattered through strata many thousand feet thick, by one transient flood.
With respect to the diluvial invective which overflowed thirty-three pages of the "Nineteenth Century" last January, I doubt not that it has a catastrophic importance in the estimation of its author.
Commentaries, sanctioned by the highest authority, give up the "actual historical truth" of the cosmogonical and diluvial narratives.
The bones already described, and the calcareous matter formed before the introduction of the diluvial mud, are what Dr.
Committing my baggage to a carman, I ascended the bank of diluvial earth and pebbles with all eagerness, and walked to the point of land where Fort Pitt (old Fort Du Quesne) had stood.
Efflorescences of nitric earth, were abundant in its fissures, and this salt was also present in masses of reddish diluvial earth, which lay in several places.
These diluvial beds have yielded some curious antiquarian relics, which lead the mind farther back, for their origin, than the Indian race.
This repository was first disclosed by the action of the lake against a diluvial shore, in which the bones were buried.
He succeeded in removing it from its diluvial bed on the banks of the river, by a car and sectional railroad of two links, formed of timber.
It is at this point that the firm cherty clay, or diluvial soil of the Missouri shore, first presents itself on the banks of the river.
The spot exhibits conclusive evidence of having once been subject to diluvial action; and the cavern itself, as I have observed, seems little else than an excavation from the heart of an enormous mass of marine petrifaction.
This whole region bears palpable evidence of having been subjected, ages since, to powerful volcanic and diluvial action; and neither the Neptunian or Vulcanian theory can advance a superior claim.
The whole area of upland soil, which rests as a mantle over the rocks, is a diluvium, which must, we think, be referred to an early period of diluvial action.
Vegetable matter and black sand form a covering over such parts of this diluvial deposit as constitute valleys and agricultural plains.
Much of the radiated quartz of this district bears the marks of diluvial action.
But the mode of mining in the diluvial soil must exhaust it of its mineral contents, and direct miners, in after years, to the true position of the ore, in the calcareous rock.
The variety of ore called gravel ore, differs from the preceding chiefly by its marks of attrition, and connection with diluvial pebble-stones.
The gravel-ore and mixed diluvial gravel is likewise a newer deposit, coinciding with the era of the primitive and secondary boulders.
In some parts of it, compact bodies of pebbles and reddish clay, very similar to that found on the cliffs, are seen, which creates an idea that the cavern must have been an open orifice at the geological era of the diluvial deposits.
The strata exhibit ancient water-marks of a diluvial character.
As the ore is found in the diluvial soil, it is generally exhausted on reaching the solid rock; and after penetrating a considerable area of the surface with any, or but partial success, the locality is abandoned, and a new one sought.
The flat diluvial plateau contrasts strongly with the rounded hills of Gascony and Languedoc.
At first broad tracks have been hollowed out by the diluvial waves, which have, at these points, formed deep valleys.
The fossils contained in diluvial deposits consist, generally, of terrestrial, lacustrine, or fluviatile shells, for the most part belonging to species still living.
These three levels are distinctly marked in the Toulousean country, which illustrates the diluvial phenomena in a remarkable fashion.
The ancient temple of the Parthenon at Athens is built on an eminence formed of diluvial earth.
The city of Toulouse reposes upon a slight eminence of diluvial formation.
This block was found in the interior of Russia, where the whole formation is Permian, and its presence there can only be explained by supposing it to have been transported by some vast iceberg, carried by a diluvial current.
Thus, the wooden knife which the Veddah of Ceylon still carves out of bamboo is formed precisely like some of the stone knives of the diluvial period.
Finally, all the peoples whose remains have been found in the oldest diluvial deposits of Europe belong to the tall races.
Some of these were almost as big as men, such as the diluvial lemurogonon Megaladapis of Madagascar.
It is probable that language was not evolved until after the dispersal of the various species and races of men, and this probably took place at the commencement of the Quaternary orDiluvial period.
The Mackenzie, on emerging from the Narrows, separates into many branches, which flow to the sea through alluvial or diluvial deltas and islands.
Tin occurs in a number of small veins in Galicia; and in the rocks of Salamanca, Murcia, and Almeria, as well as in diluvial gravels.
Patches of Pliocene sands and clays along the Mediterranean coast, sheets of diluvial gravels below the mountains, and alluvial sands along the larger rivers represent the local and most recent effects of water and ice.
The whole country northwest of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, as far north as the falls of St. Anthony, exhibits striking marks of a diluvial formation, by a gradual retiring of the waters.
They usually lie on the surface, or are partially imbedded in the soil of our prairies, which is unquestionably of diluvial formation.
Pleonaste is met with also in the diluvial sands of Ceylon.
Crystals of it are often found in diluvial and alluvial sand and gravel, along with true sapphires, pyramidal zircon, and other gems, as also with octahedral iron ore, in Ceylon.
A smaller species of Equus, the Asinus fossilis, is also found in the more recent ordiluvial formations, along with existing as well as extinct species.
The closing epoch of geology, which embraces thediluvial formations, is that in which archæology has its beginning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diluvial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
