terrigenous
/te-rij-uh-nuhs/US // tɛˈrɪdʒ ə nəs //UK // (tɛˈrɪdʒɪnəs) //
土生土长,土生土长的,土著,土生土长的人
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : produced by the earth.
- : Geology. noting or pertaining to sediments on the sea bottom derived directly from the neighboring land, or to the rocks formed primarily by the consolidation of such sediments.
Examples
The specimen brought up was a terrigenous blue mud (glacial deposit) with some radiolaria.
And thus there are vast regions of the oceanic depressions over which no terrigenous or land-derived materials are accumulating.
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