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Loose red sand also constantly forms low hills on the borders of these plains; and it seems to have been derived from the decomposition of the sandstone, and may be a diluvial or lacustrine deposit.— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2
This summer the waters of Maine were diluvial, the feeding-grounds were swamped.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
The two views are made for each other, and, like the two counterpart pictures for the stereoscope, when brought together, combine into one apparently solid whole If we allow, with Pictet, that Darwin's theory will very well serve for all that concerns the present epoch of the world's history,--an epoch which this renowned palaeontologist regards as including the diluvial or quaternary period,--then Darwin's first and foremost need in his onward course is a practicable road from this into and through the tertiary period, the intervening region between the comparatively near and the far remote past.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
Some of these were almost as big as men, such as the diluvial lemurogonon Megaladapis of Madagascar FIGURE 2.276.— The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
The two views are made for each other, and, like the two counterpart pictures for the stereoscope, when brought together, combine into one apparently solid whole If we allow, with Pictet, that Darwin's theory will very well serve for all that concerns the present epoch of the world's history--an epoch in which this renowned paleontologist includes the diluvial or quaternary period--then Darwin's first and foremost need in his onward course is a practicable road from this into and through the tertiary period, the intervening region between the comparatively near and the far remote past.— Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism

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