Definition of Diluvions

1. diluvion [n] - See also: diluvion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diluvions

dilution cloning
dilutional
dilutional hyponatraemia
dilutions
dilutive
dilutor
dilutors
diluvia
diluvial
diluvian
diluviate
diluviated
diluviates
diluviating
diluvion
diluvions (current term)
diluvium
diluviums
dim
dim-bulb
dim-headed
dim-sighted
dim-witted
dim.
dim bulb
dim sum
dimanganese
dimaprit
dimazole dihydrochloride
dimazon

Literary usage of Diluvions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1865)
"What for example do we know yet of the internal structure of those deep diluvions or alluvions which occur in oar transverse river-bottoms, where they cross ..."

2. Oneóta: Or Characteristics of the Red Race of America from Original Notes by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1845)
"... and has its course, for several hundreds of miles, through diluvions superimposed on the primitive, first plunges into the great secondary formation. ..."

3. The American Indians: Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1851)
"... and has its course, for several hundreds of miles, through diluvions superimposed on the primitive, first plunges into the great secondary formation. ..."

4. Oneóta: Or Characteristics of the Red Race of America from Original Notes by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1845)
"... for several hundreds of miles, through diluvions superimposed on the primitive, first plunges into the great secondary formation. ..."

5. Hawkins's Picture of Quebec: With Historical Recollections by Alfred Hawkins, John Charlton Fisher (1834)
"the Primary, the Transition, the secondary and the Tertiary; sometimes naked and prominent, at others deeply covered by alluvion*, diluvions or vegetable ..."

6. A Collection of Occasional Surveys of Iron, Coal and Oil Districts in the by J. Peter Lesley (1874)
"What for example do we know yet of the internal structure of those deep diluvions or alluvions which occur in our transverse river-bottoms, where they cross ..."

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