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cyclopsam

cyclopsam noun: alternate layers of sedimentary sand and mud formed in a glaciomarine environment.

Noun

cyclopsam (plural cyclopsams)

  1. Alternate layers of sedimentary sand and mud formed in a glaciomarine environment
    • For example, the rhythmically interlaminated claystone with silt/sandstone facies in AND-1B are consistent with previously described cyclopsam and cyclopel facies from modern temperate to subpolar glacimarine environments in Alaska and the Greenland margin, where they are deposited in quiet-water...2009 March 19, T. Naish et al., “Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7236, →DOI, pages 322–328

Forms of cyclopsam

pluralcyclopsams

Questions about cyclopsam

What does cyclopsam mean?
Cyclopsam means alternate layers of sedimentary sand and mud formed in a glaciomarine environment.
What part of speech is cyclopsam?
Cyclopsam is a noun.
What is the plural of cyclopsam?
The plural of cyclopsam is cyclopsams.

Words near cyclopsam in the dictionary

  1. cyclopropylmethanols
  2. cyclopropyls
  3. cycloprotoberberine
  4. cycloprotoberberines
  5. cyclops
  6. cyclopsam
  7. cyclopsams
  8. cyclopses
  9. cyclopterid
  10. cyclopterids
  11. cycloptic

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