单词 | pyrosphere |
释义 | > as lemmaspyrosphere pyrosphere n. Brit. /ˈpʌɪrə(ʊ)sfɪə/ , U.S. /ˈpaɪrəˌsfɪ(ə)r/ [compare French pyrosphère (dated 1859 in Robert Dict. alphabétique et analogique (1986))] Geology (now rare) = barysphere n.ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > geosphere > barysphere pyrosphere1887 barysphere1901 1887 M. C. Martins in W. J. Cassidy Age of Creation iii. 39 The most violent convulsions of the solid and liquid elements appear to have been themselves only the effects due to a cause much more powerful than the mere expansion of the pyrosphere. 1900 Geogr. Jrnl. 15 88 A coloured diagram showing an ideal section of the Earth on the hypothesis that within the solid lithosphere lies a pyrosphere of intensely high temperature. 1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation i. 1 Glyptogenesis is the process of sculpturing of the lithosphere through the agency of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and pyrosphere. 1995 R. J. Huggett Geoecology i. 6 The inner portion of the solid Earth was thus distinguished from the lithosphere and variously styled the centrosphere, barysphere, and bathysphere.., or even pyrosphere and magmosphere. < as lemmas |
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