| 单词 | osseous breccia |
| 释义 | > as lemmasosseous breccia 3. Geology. Of a deposit: containing many fossil bones, ossiferous. osseous breccia: bone breccia. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > formations by contents > [adjective] > containing organic remains > containing bones osteolithical1794 osseous1822 ossiferous1823 1822 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 112 180 A very few large bones have been discovered..; most of them are broken into small angular fragments and chips, the greater part of which lay separately in the mud, whilst others were wholly or partially invested with stalactite; and some of the latter united with masses of still smaller fragments and cemented by the stalactite, so as to form an osseous breccia. 1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) xix. 383 Osseous breccia appears singularly connected with the coasts of the Mediterranean. 1894 Amer. Naturalist 28 162 The Rubble-drift and osseous breccia are but slightly developed in Syria. 1994 Lethaia 27 77/1 Its opaque whitish color (it is sometimes called ‘osseous amber’) makes it difficult to find fossil inclusions. < as lemmas |
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