namakier
namakier noun: synonym of salt glacier.
Noun
namakier (plural namakiers)
- Synonym of salt glacier.
- Namakiers represent large, recumbent sheath folds underlain and flanked by rigid bedrock and overlain by air.1970, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology (contributor), Report of Investigations - Issues 142-146, page 18
- Hence the namakier consists of a stack of overlapping tongues.1987, Munn & Company (contributor), Scientific American - Volume 257, page 79
- Synonyms:
- salt glacier
Examples of namakier in a sentence
- Most salt extrusions rising on high ground are asymmetric and feed only one namakier.1998, Andrew C. Scott, Derek John Blundell (editors), Lyell - The Past is the Key to the Present, page 320:
- Small ephemeral features, including shallow caves, are typical of the salt glacier surface, but in an active namakier the salt is flowing too fast to preserve them.2006, John K. Warren, Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons, page 471:
Synonyms of namakier
Forms of namakier
| plural | namakiers |
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Origin of namakier
Blend of Persian نمک (namak, “salt”) + glacier. First use appears c. 1970. See cite below.
Questions about namakier
- What does namakier mean?
- Namakier means synonym of salt glacier.
- How do you use namakier in a sentence?
- Most salt extrusions rising on high ground are asymmetric and feed only one namakier.
- What part of speech is namakier?
- Namakier is a noun.
- What is the plural of namakier?
- The plural of namakier is namakiers.
Words near namakier in the dictionary
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