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Gold Prospecting
Metal Detecting for Gold
Gold definitions - "Alluvial", "Eluvial", "Colluvial" etc.
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 647908" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Long time since I have seen diluvial Hawkear</p><p></p><p>-of or connected with a <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/deluge" target="_blank">deluge</a>, esp with the great <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/flood" target="_blank">Flood</a> <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/describe" target="_blank">described</a> in <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/genesis" target="_blank">Genesis</a></p><p></p><p>You mostly see it on geological maps around the 1850s and earlier, when many geologists still thought in terms of rocks formed before and after Noah's flood. So they spoke of things like "pre-diluvial deposits"</p><p></p><p>Latin diluere ("to wash away"). I think the word deluge may come from the same source.</p><p></p><p>"English "diluvial" and its variant "diluvian" initially referred to the Biblical Flood. Geologists, archaeologists, fossilists, and the like used the words, beginning back in the mid-1600s, to mark a distinct geological turning point associated with the Flood" (Merriam Webster)</p><p></p><p>I have never seen a decent deposit formed that way - mainly just "poor mans diggings". The Chinese used to scratch out a living after floods on the Mitchell River in Gippsland - fine gold would be left on low spurs above normal river level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 647908, member: 4386"] Long time since I have seen diluvial Hawkear -of or connected with a [URL='https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/deluge']deluge[/URL], esp with the great [URL='https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/flood']Flood[/URL] [URL='https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/describe']described[/URL] in [URL='https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/genesis']Genesis[/URL] You mostly see it on geological maps around the 1850s and earlier, when many geologists still thought in terms of rocks formed before and after Noah's flood. So they spoke of things like "pre-diluvial deposits" Latin diluere ("to wash away"). I think the word deluge may come from the same source. "English "diluvial" and its variant "diluvian" initially referred to the Biblical Flood. Geologists, archaeologists, fossilists, and the like used the words, beginning back in the mid-1600s, to mark a distinct geological turning point associated with the Flood" (Merriam Webster) I have never seen a decent deposit formed that way - mainly just "poor mans diggings". The Chinese used to scratch out a living after floods on the Mitchell River in Gippsland - fine gold would be left on low spurs above normal river level. [/QUOTE]
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Metal Detecting for Gold
Gold definitions - "Alluvial", "Eluvial", "Colluvial" etc.
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