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cyclopsams

cyclopsams is the plural of cyclopsam.

Meaning of cyclopsam

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

Questions about cyclopsams

What is cyclopsams the plural of?
Cyclopsams is the plural of cyclopsam.

Words near cyclopsams in the dictionary

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

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