Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Derived from the land, especially by erosive action. Used primarily of sediments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Earth-born; produced by the earth.
- In geology, derived from the land: said of sediments on the sea-bottom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Earthborn; produced by the earth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geology Derived from the
erosion of land-basedrocks .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Modern terrigenous organic carbon input to the Arctic Ocean.
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The scarcity of these fossils is most likely due to the high rate of deposition of terrigenous sediment that would have clouded the waters where these fossils attempted to survive.
Glacier National Park Geology & Paleontology: Part 3 - Appekunny and Grinnell ReBecca Foster 2008
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The scarcity of these fossils is most likely due to the high rate of deposition of terrigenous sediment that would have clouded the waters where these fossils attempted to survive.
Archive 2008-08-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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Extensive transitional landforms comprise an extremely complex intercalation of limestone massifs and terrigenous terrain with a diversity of rock types.
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The specimen brought up was a terrigenous blue mud (glacial deposit) with some radiolaria.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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So, a radiological clock, which “is built in” the products of a volcanic eruption, do not further respond to the subsequent deposition of terrigenous and carbonaceous strata, nor to post-depositional uplift or erosion, etc.
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(D) ODP 658 terrigenous dust record from West Africa (24).
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High terrigenous dust concentrations reflect greater aridity in West Africa.
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However, variations of CCsurf in our cores could also reflect changes in microcharcoal input linked to changes of fluvial sedimentary input or dilution processes due to increase in terrigenous material.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010
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However, variations of CCsurf in our cores could also reflect changes in microcharcoal input linked to changes of fluvial sedimentary input or dilution processes due to increase in terrigenous material.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010
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