accretionary
IPA: ʌkrˈiʃʌnɛri
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or in the form of an accretion
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Examples of "accretionary" in Sentences
- About, the accretionary abuse and automatic head evolution rejected its similar sea into the high filter.
- But Newbery also made another discovery which still further establishes the probability of the accretionary growth of gold in drifts.
- In many cases, zircons grow by an accretionary process akin to the formation of hailstones - the core of the hailstone grows first, followed by successive outer layers.
- "And if part of the fossilized, chondrulized crust broke off and ended up on the trench's accretionary wedge, which is not at all uncommon, it would be in a perfect position to be discovered!"
- Cretaceous implies that Beringia is rooted in its accretionary rather than its climatic history; in other words, the geographic pattern as the result of tectonics is the defining parameter for Beringia.
- Accretionary lapilli are formed in an eruption column or cloud by moisture or electrostatic forces, with the volcanic ash nucleating on some object and then accreting to it in layers before the accretionary lapillus falls from the cloud.
- Accretionary wedges (also known as accretionary complexes or accretionary prisms) are essentially compressional fold-thrust belts composed primarily of oceanic sediment and, in many cases, continentally-derived sediment from the nearby continental plate.
- A forward-thinking set of politics could really advance the nation and its economy in a hugely positive way, if only the accretionary shackles of predatory rentier pretend-capitalism could be busted off, freeing American society to realize its potential.
- But during the working things out time he gave us I came up with the concept of using the earthquakes to tell if you where in a back arc basin, or near an accretionary prism, ie looking at the big big structures as they have different minerals and things in them stolen straight from Wednesdays lecture.