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单词 rock flour
释义

rock flour


noun

glacial meal.

Origin of rock flour

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby rock flour

Rock Falls, rock fence, Rock fever, rock-fill dam, rockfish, rock flour, rock flower, Rockford, rock garden, rock glacier, Rockhampton
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Example sentences from the Web for rock flour

  • Mountains were moved piecemeal, and ground to boulders, pebbles, and rock-flour in the moving.

    The Spell of the Rockies|Enos A. Mills
  • Nearly all of the soil in the Park is rock-flour that was ground by glaciers, and in part distributed by them.

    Your National Parks|Enos A. Mills
  • Mountains are moved piecemeal, and are ground to boulders, pebbles, and rock-flour in the moving.

    Your National Parks|Enos A. Mills

British Dictionary definitions for rock flour

rock flour

noun

very finely powdered rock, produced when rocks are ground together (as along the faces of a moving fault or during the motion of glaciers) and are thus chemically unweathered
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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