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Definition of Detrital
1. a. Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.
Definition of Detrital
1. Adjective. (geology) Consisting of, or pertaining to, geological detritus. ¹
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Definition of Detrital
1. detritus [adj] - See also: detritus
Medical Definition of Detrital
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Detrital
Literary usage of Detrital
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1892)
"On the Occurrence of detrital Tourmaline in a, Quarts-schist west of Start ...
Six additional slides were forthwith prepared, and detrital tourmaline was ..."
2. The Nature of Ore Deposits by Richard Beck (1905)
"detrital DEPOSITS. By detrital deposits we understand accumulations of ore formed
by the destruction and redeposition of primary deposits. ..."
3. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1919)
"OUTLINE OF PROPOSED CLASSIFICATION detrital and Sedimentary Deposits. ...
This includes the detrital deposits such as placers and quartz sand formed at ..."
4. Practical Geology and Mineralogy: With Instructions for the Qualitative by Joshua Trimmer (1842)
"At this mine a considerable quantity of lead was formerly extracted from a detrital
deposit of great depth analogous to the stream tin-works of Cornwall, ..."
5. Economic Geology by Charles Henry Richardson (1913)
"detrital Deposits. — detrital deposits are those resulting from the ...
The composition of the detrital deposit will depend upon the nature of the overlying ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"Not only are the agricultural bottom-lands in these valleys threatened with
destruction by submersion or detrital deposits, and the harbor and river-channel ..."
7. Observations on the West of England Mining Region: Being an Account of the by Joseph Henry Collins (1912)
"All clastic rocks, such as conglomerates and sandstones, and even some clays,
may be regarded as detrital deposits, whatever may be their geological age. ..."
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