单词 | sugar limestone |
释义 | > as lemmassugar limestone C2. Resembling sugar in shape or texture, as sugar limestone, phosphate, -sand. ΚΠ 1865 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2) Sugar Limestone, a local term, applied in Yorkshire to the metamorphosed mountain limestone that rests on the thick trappean mass of the ‘Whin Sill’. 1887 Colonial & Indian Exhib., London 1886: Rep. Colonial Sections 6 The so-called ‘Sugar-Phosphate’, a finely-granular apatite rock not unlike a dirty saccharine marble. < as lemmas |
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