| 释义 |
‖ ecroulement
[Fr.]
The fall of a mass of rock, a building, etc. Used fig.; also spec. in Geol.
1820H. Matthews Diary of an Invalid (1835) 288 Napoleon has so catamaranned the foundations, that more than one écroulement has already taken place. 1839Murchison Silurian System i. xiii. 163 The great ecroulement of rocks round Daren. Ibid. i. xxxii. 435, I found the phenomena to be similar to many ecroulemens of Alpine tracts. |