page_title: Diluvium
hierarchical_section_title: Diluvium
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Дилювиальные гряды сложены грубогалечниково-валунной рыхлой косослоистой смесью с присутствием (около 5%)грубозернистых песков. Одно из самых эффектных в мире полей рельефа гигантской ряби течения, сформировавшегося при очередном прорыве Чуйско-Курайского ледниково-подрудного озера]] около 15 тыс. лет назад. Высота волны достигает 20 м при длине более 200 м, расходы дилювиальных потоков,в которых сформировалась рябь, превышали 1 млн. куб. м/сек, скорости потоков достигали десятков м/сек. На одной из гряд для масштаба установлен автомобиль ГАЗ-66. Горный Алтай.
context_page_description: Historically, diluvium was a term in geology for superficial deposits formed by flood-like operations of water, and so contrasted with alluvium or alluvial deposits formed by slow and steady aqueous agencies. The term was formerly given to the boulder clay deposits, which some early geologists supposed had been caused by the Noachian deluge, a concept known as flood geology or diluvialism.
  In the late 20th century Russian geologist Alexei Rudoy proposed the term "diluvium" for description of deposits created as a result of catastrophic outbursts of Pleistocene giant glacier-dammed lakes in intermontane basins of the Altai. The largest of these lakes, Chuya and Kuray, had volumes of water in hundreds of cubic kilometers, and their discharge in peak hydrograph flow rate exceeded the maximum rates of the well-known Pleistocene Lake Missoula floods in North America. The term "diluvium" in the meaning of A. N. Rudoy has become accepted, and the process of diluvial morpholithogenesis can be found in modern textbooks.
context_section_description: Historically, diluvium was a term in geology for superficial deposits formed by flood-like operations of water, and so contrasted with alluvium or alluvial deposits formed by slow and steady aqueous agencies. The term was formerly given to the boulder clay deposits, which some early geologists supposed had been caused by the Noachian deluge, a concept known as flood geology or diluvialism.
  In the late 20th century Russian geologist Alexei Rudoy proposed the term "diluvium" for description of deposits created as a result of catastrophic outbursts of Pleistocene giant glacier-dammed lakes in intermontane basins of the Altai.  The largest of these lakes, Chuya and Kuray, had volumes of water in hundreds of cubic kilometers, and their discharge in peak hydrograph flow rate exceeded the maximum rates of the well-known Pleistocene Lake Missoula floods in North America.  The term "diluvium" in the meaning of A. N. Rudoy has become accepted, and the process of diluvial morpholithogenesis can be found in modern textbooks.
caption: Giant current ripples in the Kuray Basin, Altai, Russia
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