Etymologies
- speleo- + (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A speleothem that has been intermittently submerged in a cave on the island of Mallorca was dated to show that, historically, sea level was more than a meter above its present height.”
“Using speleothem encrustations from coastal caves on the island of Mallorca, we determined that western Mediterranean relative sea level was ~1 meter above modern sea level ~81,000 years ago during marine isotope stage (MIS) 5a.”
“We present an analysis of faunal data from the Naracoorte Caves in southeastern Australia, which are unique not only because of the species richness and time-depth of the assemblages that they contain, but also because this faunal record is directly comparable with a 500 k.y. speleothem-based record of local effective moisture.”
“Because the speleothem record and prior faunal response imply that local conditions should have been favorable for megafauna until at least 30 ka, climate change is unlikely to have been the principal cause of the extinctions.”
“Next here is a graphic of the Oman speleothem S3, referred to in the Yang et al article.”
“Obviously the speleothem data from Oman and Dongge shows that the Holocene Optimum was very marked in these areas and not just the NH extratropics.”
“The next graphic compares the Dongge DA speleothem shown above to the Dongge D4 speleothem, which goes back to the LGM and to another Arabian Sea G bulloides series 723A which, unlike RC2730, goes back to the Holocene Optimum.”
“None of the trends shown in the speleothem directly relate to temperature”
“If the Team wish to cavil that this information does not bear on annual temperatures, they must explain why, for example, the same type of data e.g. percent G bulloides in the Arabian Sea, speleothem dO18 is permitted as a temperature proxy in Moberg et al 2005.”
“However, the LGM transition to higher dO18 values is dated about 2000 years earlier for Dongge Cave than for Oman speleothem S3.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘speleothem’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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An Intermediate Course of Random Pala...
A third uncategorized list of words that catch my eye or fancy. Common or regional names and terms, names of foods and food preparation utensils, bird, plant and animal names, jargon words, and od...
lobscouse, skillygalee, skilly, skippaug, pauhagen, paughaden, poghaden, poggie, pog, skoodle, reef goose, reezle and 138 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
Tweets
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reesetee You bet. Jan 15, 2009
hernesheir Thanks for the correction, reesetee. Jan 15, 2009
reesetee H: I think that should be stalactite, not stalagtite, no? Jan 15, 2009
hernesheir (n): A secondary mineral deposit that is formed in a cave by the action of water. syn: cave formation, formation, secondary cave formation. Common examples of speleothems include stalagmite, stalactite, flowstone, and rimstone. Jan 15, 2009