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what are diluvial forests?

edited May 2014 in Geography & Geology
Its mentioned in india year book 2014, flora in andaman region.

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  • Diluvial forests are the ones created due to flood in shore or river banks. Andaman has growth of mangrove and other(everygreen types) ocean based flora. these flora which flourishes as a result of ocean flood is called deluvial forest.
  • could you provide the source for it? im not able to find any information related to it.
  • could you provide the source for it? im not able to find any information related to it.
    Source wikipedia
    Diluvium is 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, supposed to have been caused by the Noachian deluge.


    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.[1] 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.
  • i did read the wiki part.i failed to understand how its related to andaman islands.there was no massive flooding in andaman as its next to sea and diluvial forest could at most come up due to flooding deposits, with andaman surrounded by an ocean i do not understand how the two concept can be related.i appreciate the effort though.
  • i did read the wiki part.i failed to understand how its related to andaman islands.there was no massive flooding in andaman as its next to sea and diluvial forest could at most come up due to flooding deposits, with andaman surrounded by an ocean i do not understand how the two concept can be related.i appreciate the effort though.
    as per wiki there are no diluvial forests in andaman n nicobar islands.....there are evergreen and deciduous forests there... :)
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