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Definition of Slickened
1. slicken [v] - See also: slicken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slickened
Literary usage of Slickened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Coal Resources of District VI by Gilbert Haven Cady, Kessack Duke White, Fred Hall Kay, Illinois State Geological Survey, United States Bureau of Mines (1916)
"The upper part of the clay contains plant impressions and slickened surfaces.
... The clay is very hard and the upper foot has slickened surfaces. ..."
2. The Resources of Tennessee by Tennessee State Geological Survey, Tennessee Division of Geology, State Geological Survey, Tennessee (1918)
"Some of the ore and black manganiferous clay is slickened, showing great compression
and earth movement. This ore zone undoubtedly occupies a fault zone ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"slickened, polished. Used to describe the appearance found on the planes of
bedding where a fault in the strata has occurred. ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"The faces of the concretions are usually slickened, probably due to their being
forced down into the vegetal mass forming the coal by the gradual subsidence ..."
5. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"... and the pressure of the water the rock beds broke loose along the joints of
the limestone and slipped off over the slickened surface of the clay layers. ..."
6. California, Romantic and Beautiful: The History of Its Old Missions and of by George Wharton James (1914)
"... once filled with ice, are now bare, slickened and sharp-backed or clogged with
moraines, just as the glaciers left them. The wreck of the vanished ..."
7. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1901)
"... is manifested in many of the larger quarries, in pronounced slicken-sided
surfaces of the joint planes. The slickened surfaces are, as a rule, ..."
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