NOACHIAN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Noachian

... magnum—the Ossemens Fossiles—the great naturalist threw the whole weight of his influence into the scale of Catastrophism. He maintained that a series of tremendous cataclysms had affected the globe—the last being the Noachian deluge—and that the floods of water that overspread the earth, during each of these events, had buried the various groups of animals, now extinct, that had been ...

— The Coming of Evolution - The Story of a Great Revolution in Science • John W. (John Wesley) Judd