saltation
IPA: sˈɔɫtˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- A leap, jump or dance.
- Beating or palpitation.
- (biology) A sudden change from one generation to the next; a mutation.
- Any abrupt transition.
- (geology, fluid mechanics) The transport of loose particles by a fluid (such as wind or flowing water).
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Examples of "saltation" in Sentences
- Saltation is also used by many small birds.
- The paper specifically rejects typogenetic saltation.
- The term "saltation" implies large leaps, such as sudden speciation.
- There are two main ways to transport bed load traction and saltation.
- There are two mechanisms by which upwind saltation could be sustained.
- Saltation is downwind movement of particles in a series of jumps or skips.
- A saltating grain may hit other grains that jump up to continue the saltation.
- If saltation conditions prevail for long periods, ridges can grow indefinitely.
- No. I am just giving an example of a (former) evolutionary biologist who doesn't allow the possibility of saltation.
- Due to the process of wind-loom movement of dunes ( "saltation"), dune sands fall within a narrow range of particle size.
- One of the primary indications that the RNA signatures are, in fact, remnants of an evolutionary saltation is their discrete character.
- The focus on “large amounts of specified information” my emphasis also reduces his entire book to a strawman argument, since the TOE neither predicts nor expects saltation.
- Darwin never said that there would be a transformation of one species into another in one generation, and no evolutionist now claims this it's known as "saltation", and is discreditied.
- If you are using "saltation" in its commonly understood meaning (with Goldschmidt as its premier proponent), I don't think you will find any current evolutionary biologist allowing it as a possibility.
- Alan Fox: If you are using "saltation" in its commonly understood meaning (with Goldschmidt as its premier proponent), I don't think you will find any current evolutionary biologist allowing it as a possibility.
- This is called “saltation” Google it, and results in many examples of self-organized patterns - most commonly in deserts and snow fields by the wind, and in shallow sandy bottoms, where the moving fluid is water in slow regular wave or tidal oscillation.