Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stalactitic variety of calcite. See
stalactite .
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- noun geology An isolated
fragment ofrock found within asedimentary rock (that had fallen, rather than being carried along)
Etymologies
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Examples
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First, they have a variety of data flags, including flags for turbidity, earthquake, drainage event, and dropstone, indicating that the particular data point is not to be used.
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The dropstone group gathered a 150 graduation speeches together and attempted to code and extract "meta-advice" by combining the insights together.
Archive 2006-05-01 Wynn Williamson 2006
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PS I mapped a few thousand sq miles of late Precambrian in the Richtersveld, just inside South Africa years ago, which was older than the Nama and included the Numees tillite in which I found a stromatolite in associated dolomite, and also a dropstone and varves.
The Cambrian as an evolutionary exemplar - The Panda's Thumb 2005
bilby commented on the word dropstone
"Each of these layers defines an annual accumulation of sediment. Varved sediments may contain dropstones, which are fragments of rock that have dropped from an overlying floating ice sheet and that have sunk into and depressed the layers beneath them."
- Encyclopaedia Britannica.
October 2, 2008
reesetee commented on the word dropstone
Nifty!
October 2, 2008