单词 | tosca |
释义 | toscan. A soft dark-brown limestone occurring embedded and sometimes stratified in the surface formation of the Pampas. Also applied to various lavas in southern Italy and Sicily; and in Colombia, South America, to a surface rock of supposed volcanic origin ( Cent. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others lias1404 stone marrow1681 stone marl1682 saint's head stone1763 Kentish rag1769 watericle1776 kankar1793 Cotham1816 mountain limestone1817 tosca1818 cornstone1819 burr1829 coral-limestone1831 scar-limestone1831 Wenlock limestone1834 bavin1839 curf1839 Solenhofen slate1841 Beer stone1871 miliolite limestone1872 Clipsham1877 reef limestone1884 Hopton wood1888 thermo-calcite1888 Kilkenny marble1930 micrite1959 1818 Amer. St. Papers, For. Relat. (1834) IV. 277 This concretion, as it projects along the water's edge of the Rio de la Plata at the city of Buenos Ayres, is called tosco, or rough earth. 1846 C. Darwin Geol. Observ. S. Amer. iv. 77 For convenience sake, I will call the marly rock by the name given to it by the inhabitants, namely, Tosca-rock. 1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 356 Tosca-Rock, a name given by the inhabitants of Buenos-Ayres to a marly arenaceous rock found imbedded in layers and nodular masses among the argillaceous earth or mud of the Pampas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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