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bafflestone

bafflestone noun: a kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition, reducing the local depositional energy.

Noun

bafflestone (countable and uncountable, plural bafflestones)

  1. A kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition, reducing the local depositional energy.
    • The ingredients for recognizing a bafflestone are the presence of a large number of in-situ stalk-shaped fossils, and a good imagination on the part of the geologist.2013, Erik Flügel, Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks: Analysis, Interpretation and Application

Forms of bafflestone

pluralbafflestones

Origin of bafflestone

From baffle + stone.

Questions about bafflestone

What does bafflestone mean?
Bafflestone means a kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition, reducing the local depositional energy.
What part of speech is bafflestone?
Bafflestone is a noun.
What is the plural of bafflestone?
The plural of bafflestone is bafflestones.

Words near bafflestone in the dictionary

  1. bafflements
  2. baffler
  3. bafflers
  4. baffles
  5. bafflest
  6. bafflestone
  7. bafflestones
  8. baffleth
  9. baffling
  10. baffling wind
  11. baffling winds

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