| 单词 | fossil water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfossil water fossil water n. †(a) (English regional) a white or colourless translucent mineral forming crystals or veins in rock (obsolete); (b) water that has been confined in an aquifer, glacier, etc., for a very long period of time (thousands or millions of years) and hence is not renewable; cf. connate adj. 5. ΚΠ 1849 H. M. Lee in N. Walker & T. Craddock Hist. Wisbech 542 Nodules of blue argillaceous limestone, which are often traversed by fissures or cracks filled with calcareous spar, commonly called ‘fossil water’. 1882 W. J. Harrison Geol. Counties Eng. iii. 16 Semi-transparent glassy crystals of selenite, called ‘fossil water’ by the workmen. 1902 Geol. Mag. 9 560 Such washing-out of the original ‘fossil’ water may have taken place anywhere. 1973 Sci. Amer. Apr. 60/2 Most of this water is fossil water gathered after the last ice age, when the Sahara must have been a tropical region with heavy rainfall. 2005 Windsor Star (Ont.) (Nexis) 26 Dec. a12 The shrinkage of the glaciers is well-documented... ‘That's fossil water, and when it's gone, it's gone.’ < as lemmas |
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