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Diluvial adj.

Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

(Geol.) Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

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... flint hatchets, belonging to the drift type, as described by M. Boucher De Perthes, that they might very readily be mistaken, the one for the other." "They are as emphatically drift implements, as any that have appeared in the diluvial matrix of France." On the surface soil, above the flints, are found the ordinary relics of the Indians. The works of the Mound Builders are also to be seen. Judging from their position, the Paleolithics ...

— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

Words linked to "Diluvial" : deluge, diluvian