| 单词 | crag and tail |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrag and tail b. crag and tail (Geology): see quot. 1859. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > arrangement of hills crag and tail1815 stoss-and-lee1947 1815 J. Hall in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 7 201 The district..in the neighbourhood of Noble-house, exhibits a series of low hills, possessing the characteristic forms of craig and tail. 1850 W. B. Clarke Wreck of Favorite 217 The..island..presenting the form of what is usually called ‘crag and tail’—i.e. being rocky and precipitous on one side and gradually sloping to the water's edge on the other. 1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 128 Crag and Tail (properly ‘craig and tail’), applied to a form of Secondary hills common in Britain, where a bold precipitous front is exposed to the west or north-west, and a sloping declivity towards the east. The phenomenon..is evidently the result of the currents of the ‘Drift’ epoch. 1960 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) x. 90 The crag has a ‘tail’ partly of rock, partly of superficial deposits. This crag-and-tail structure is perfectly illustrated by the Edinburgh example where the gentle slope up to the Castle from the eastern side represents the ‘tail’. < as lemmas |
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