释义 |
exhumation /ɛks(h)juːˈmeɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1The action of digging up something buried, especially a corpse: the exhumation of bodies was ordered following protests by the villagers the exhumation of a prisoners' mass grave...- A forensic pathologist was not present for the exhumation.
- The initial involvement of the Home Office in granting permission for the exhumation of three bodies did not end there.
- Earlier this year, Wiltshire Constabulary oversaw the exhumation of the body of a heroin addict.
1.1 Geology The exposure of a land surface that was formerly buried: the exhumation of rock to the surface...- Moreover, it is possible that some Jurassic sediments that were not completely eroded during the early Cretaceous could have been removed during a Palaeogene exhumation episode.
- Therefore deeper burial, and subsequent exhumation during this interval, provides a viable explanation of the observed early Tertiary palaeotemperatures in this well.
- The pattern of Cenozoic uplift and exhumation of mainland Britain is perhaps best defined across northern England.
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