| 单词 | iceberg droppings |
| 释义 | > as lemmasiceberg droppings iceberg droppings n. Geology (now rare) boulders, gravel, etc., which are carried out to sea by icebergs and fall to the sea floor when the icebergs melt; cf. dropstone n. Additions. ΚΠ 1871 J. Geikie in Geol. Mag. 8 546 If the Scottish Boulder-clay be neither iceberg droppings nor terminal moraine matter.., then it is hard to see what difficulty lies in the way of accepting Agassiz's theory. 1918 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 26 77 The only feasible explanation of the occurrence of these large rock fragments interbedded with the fine clay is that they are iceberg droppings. 2000 J. Bischof Ice Drift, Ocean Circulation & Climatic Change v. 25 Because of the erratic nature of iceberg rafting, dropping some stones here and some there, there was a need to demonstrate that these individual iceberg droppings had..created layers with relatively uniform petrographic composition of distinct geographic origin. < as lemmas |
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