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Definition of Sulcations
1. sulcation [n] - See also: sulcation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sulcations
Literary usage of Sulcations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cotteswold Hills: Hand-book Introductory to Their Geology and Palæontology by John Lycett (1857)
"A remarkable species, nearly allied in the general figure and sulcations to A.
Germaini, ... 101, but it has less convexity, and the sulcations unlike ..."
2. Geological Observations on South America: Being the Third Part of the by Charles Darwin, George Brettingham Sowerby, Edward Forbes (1846)
"The sulcations of the hinge are large, numerous, and regular. The surface of the
shell appears to have been concentrically, though irregularly, striated. ..."
3. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1848)
"Nevertheless it may with great probability be regarded as one of the segments of
the plate metamorphosed. The sulcations do not seem to perforate the plate. ..."
4. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1871)
"Surface covered with a thin layer of fine sand, at the top of the contracted
polyps showing about 12, distinct, radiating sulcations. ..."
5. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America by Charles Darwin (1897)
"... marked with lesser sulcations or striations. Upper valve concave, spatulate,
and concentrically furrowed. Length, 3J ; breadth, 2; distance from summit ..."
6. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America by Charles Darwin (1876)
"Lower value not very convex, rugged, angulated; upper valv? concave, orbicular,
furrowed with deep concentric sulcations. Apparently a young specimen. ..."
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