turbiditen.
/ˈtəːbɪdʌɪt/ Geology.
A sediment or rock deposited, or presumed to have been deposited, by a turbidity current.
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turbidite1957
1957 P. H. Kuenen in Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 65 231/1 The term ‘turbidite’ for all deposits of turbidity currents is more appropriate, and the writer accepts this verbal suggestion of C. P. M. Frijlinck.
1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 204/1 The thick clastics and turbidites of the upper Devonian of the Yukon seem to be derived from an oceanic zone of uplift.
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turbiˈditic adj.
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1973 Nature 9 Feb. 389/2 The lowest (Unit I)..has at the base a phyllitic formation..followed by turbiditic sandstones.
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