| 释义 |
suevite Petrogr.|ˈsweɪvaɪt|
[ad. G. suevit, f. L. Suēvia, Suēbia, name of a region in W. Germany (see prec. and Swabian a. 1 a): see -ite1.]
A type of welded braccia found associated with impact craters, similar to a tuff but showing signs of impact metamorphism; orig. such a rock from the Ries crater near Nördlingen in W. Germany.
1938Mineral. Abstr. VII. 74 The tuffs (suevite) of the Nördlinger Ries are supposed to be rocks fused by the impact of the meteorite. 1970New Scientist 23 July 174/3 The so-called ‘suevite’ rocks of the Ries are almost indentical to some of the surface samples from the fragmented lunar ‘regolith’. |