FLOWSTONE

Meaning of FLOWSTONE in English

/floh"stohn'/ , n. Petrol.

a layered deposit of calcium carbonate, CaCO 3 , left by thin sheets of flowing water, as in a cave. Cf. dripstone .

[ 1920-25, Amer.; FLOW + STONE ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

FLOWSTONE — noun Date: 1925 calcite deposited by a thin sheet of flowing water usually along the walls or floor of a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FLOWSTONE — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a deposit of travertine found where water flowing in a very thin sheet over rocks has deposited …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FLOWSTONE — noun Date: 1925 : calcite deposited by a thin sheet of flowing water usually along the walls or floor of …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FLOWSTONE — ■ noun Geology rock deposited as a thin sheet by precipitation from flowing water.
Concise Oxford English vocab
FLOWSTONE — [flow.stone] n (1925): calcite deposited by a thin sheet of flowing water usu. along the walls or floor of a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FLOWSTONE — mineral deposit found in solution caves in limestone. Flowing films of water that move along floors or down positive-sloping walls …
Britannica English vocabulary
FLOWSTONE — n. rock deposited in a thin sheet by a flow of water.
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FLOWSTONE — n. rock deposited in a thin sheet by a flow of water.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FLOWSTONE — n. rock deposited in a thin sheet by a flow of water.
Oxford English vocab
FLOWSTONE — A layered deposit of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, on rock where water has flowed or dripped, as on the walls of …
Environmental Engineering English vocabulary
FLOWSTONE — слоистые отложения углекислого кальция
Англо-Русский словарь по строительству и новым строительным технологиям
FLOWSTONE — n. Pronunciation: ' fl ō - ˌ st ō n Function: noun Date: 1925 : calcite deposited by a thin …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
CAVE DEPOSIT — also called Speleothem, any of the crystalline deposits that form in a solution cave after the creation of the cave …
Britannica English vocabulary
ОБЫЧНО ИЗВЕСТНЫЙ КАК — • Dripstone and flowstone accumulate as elaborate encrustations, known popularly as "formations".
Русско-Английский научно-технический словарь переводчика

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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