| 单词 | bone bed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone bed bone bed n. (the name of) a rock stratum containing many fossilized animal bones; (more widely) a layer of bones and bone fragments. ΚΠ 1824 W. Buckland & W. D. Conybeare in Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 301 These siliceous strata, from the abundance of their organic remains,..are known by the name of the ‘Bone-beds’. 1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 194 In the upper Silurian Rocks, in a bone-bed of the Downton sandstone. 1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles xii. 281 A conglomeratic sandy limestone, the Bone Bed—usually several thin fossiliferous beds totalling about 8 feet—occurs about 20 feet above the base of the Rhaetic at Blue Anchor, Somerset. 2000 Kansas Anthropologist 21 25/2 This trench complex also contained a significant bone bed, consisting of bison and pronghorn antelope remains and bone fragments. < as lemmas |
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