单词 | pelolithic |
释义 | † pelolithicadj. Geology. Obsolete. Of a stratum or series of strata: consisting chiefly of clay. Cf. psammolithic adj. at psammo- comb. form . ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [adjective] > consisting of clay clayey1024 clayena1382 argillosec1420 argillousc1420 clay?1523 clayish1570 argillaceous1731 tilly1799 pelolithic1884 1884 A. J. Jukes-Browne in Geol. Mag. Nov. 526 The Coral Rag is only an episode in the pelolithic series; it is absent throughout a distance of nearly 120 miles, and over this tract there is a complete passage from the Oxford into the Kimmeridge Clay. 1892 Proc. Royal Soc. 51 136 This condition is not unknown in early caudal vertebrae in English Sauropterygians from the Pelolithic strata. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1884 |
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