| 单词 | water-sorted |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater-sorted water-sorted adj. (of particles, gravel, etc.) sorted into a gradient of size by moving water, esp. glacial meltwater. ΚΠ 1866 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 22 10 There are banks of water-sorted gravel at various heights and unconnected with any ‘col’—a fact which cannot be accounted for by the ice-dam theory. 1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 36 Soils derived from fine volcanic ash and watersorted derivatives. 2008 J. F. Hart & S. S. Ziegler Landscapes of Minnesota ii. 30 When the water lost velocity, it deposited these sediments in horizontal layers in which all the particles are roughly the same size. These water-sorted sediments are called ‘outwash deposits’. < as lemmas |
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