Diluvium

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Katun River Altai Scabland, Altai Republic
Giant current ripples in the Kuray Basin, Altai, Russia

Diluvium is an archaic term applied during the 1800s to widespread surficial deposits of sediments that could not be explained by the historic action of rivers and seas. Diluvium was initially argued to have been deposited by the action of extraordinary floods of vast extent, specifically the

Noachian Flood.[1][2]

In 1822 and 1823,

Quaternary Period.[5]

Katun River
, Little Yaloman Village, July 2011

In the late 20th century Russian geologist Alexei Rudoy

Lake Missoula floods in North America.[7][8]

Deluvium, a slightly different spelling of diluvium, was sometimes used to designate diluvial sediments (diluvium).[9][10] However, in 1888, Pavlov[11] coined the term deluvium, with an e, to designate products of weathered and altered rocks carried by slopewash and deposited on slopes and plains.[12] Currently, "deluvium" is used in Eastern and Central European countries like Lithuania and Poland to describe slopewash deposits.[12][2][13][14]

See also

  • Alluvium – Loose soil or sediment that is eroded and redeposited in a non-marine setting
  • Colluvium – Loose, unconsolidated sediments deposited at the base of a hillslope
  • Eluvium – End product of rock weathering
  • Giant current ripples – Depositional forms in channeled scablands
  • Illuvium – Material displaced across a soil profile

References

  1. ISBN 0-922152-76-4
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  3. ^ a b Buckland, W., 1823. Reliquiae Diluvianae, or Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel, and on Other Geological Phenomena, Attesting the Action of an Universal Deluge. 1st ed. John Murray, London, England. 303 pp.
  4. ^ Mantell, G.A.,1822. The fossils of the South Downs, or illustrations of the geology of Sussex. London, England, L. Relfe. 327 pp. (p. 274)
  5. ^ a b Flint, R F., 1947. Glacial geology and the Pleistocene epoch. New York, John Wiley and Sons. 589 pp.
  6. ^ Rudoy, A.N., 2002. Glacier-dammed lakes and geological work of glacial superfloods in the Late Pleistocene, Southern Siberia, Altai Mountains. Quaternary International, 87(1), pp.119-140.
  7. ^ Rudoy, A.N. and Baker, V.R., 1993. Sedimentary effects of cataclysmic late Pleistocene glacial outburst flooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia. Sedimentary Geology, 85(1-4), pp.53-62.
  8. ^ Lee, Keenan, 2004. The Altai Flood. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado. 12 pp.
  9. ^ Wells, D.A., Cross, C.R., Nichols, W.R., Trowbridge, J., Kneeland, S. and Bliss, G., 1860. "The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art." Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, New York. 430 pp.
  10. ^ von Cotta, B., Noel, R.R., 1865. "Geology and History: A Popular Exposition of all that Is Known of the Earth and its Inhabitants in Pre-Historic Times." Trübner & Co., London.
  11. ^ Pavlov, A.P., 1888. Geneticheskie tipy materikovykh obrazovanii lednikovoi i pozdnelednikovoi epokhi. Izvestiia Geologicheskogo komiteta, 7(7), pp. 78-96.
  12. ^ a b Miller, B.A. and Juilleret, J., 2020. The colluvium and alluvium problem: Historical review and current state of definitions. Earth-Science Reviews, 209, no. 103316
  13. ^ Leopold, M. and Völkel, J., 2007. Colluvium: Definition, differentiation, and possible suitability for reconstructing Holocene climate data. Quaternary International, 162, pp.133-140.
  14. ^ Baužienė, I., Świtoniak, M., Charzyński, P., 2008. Properties of deluvial soils in Poland and Lithuania and propositions for their classification.Žemės Ūkio Mokslai. 15(3), pp. 29–35.
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