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speleofact

speleofact noun: item deliberately extracted from a speleothem for the purpose of usage in a particular function.

Noun

speleofact (plural speleofacts)

  1. item deliberately extracted from a speleothem for the purpose of usage in a particular function
    • Speleofacts, like artifacts, are formed by removal of material, addition of material, or both. Speleofacts are of two general types: speleogens, such as scour troughs, dome-pits, and drip pockets, form by solution and corrasion excavating cave rock and sediments; speleothems, such as flowstone...1967 March 1, Arthur Lange, “Caves and Karst, Volume 9, No. 2, March/April 1967”, in Caves and Karst, volume 9, number 2
    • Note that the burnt bone was covered by a reddish and blackened speleofact2016, Jacques Jaubert, Sophie Verheyden, Dominique Genty, Michel Soulier, Hai Cheng, “Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France”, in Nature, volume 534, number...

Examples of speleofact in a sentence

  • Speleofacts, like artifacts, are formed by removal of material, addition of material, or both.1967 March 1, Arthur Lange, “Caves and Karst, Volume 9, No. 2, March/April 1967”, in Caves and Karst, volume 9, number 2:
  • Prehistoric humans intentionally modified stalagmites in the Cova Dones cave in Spain, forming over 100 structures—known as speleofacts—as a result.2025 June 4, Dario Radley, “Over 100 prehistoric structures uncovered in Cova Dones cave, Spain”, in Archaeology News Online Magazine:

Forms of speleofact

pluralspeleofacts

Origin of speleofact

Coined by Arthur Lange.

Questions about speleofact

What does speleofact mean?
Speleofact means item deliberately extracted from a speleothem for the purpose of usage in a particular function.
How do you use speleofact in a sentence?
Speleofacts, like artifacts, are formed by removal of material, addition of material, or both.
What part of speech is speleofact?
Speleofact is a noun.
What is the plural of speleofact?
The plural of speleofact is speleofacts.

Words near speleofact in the dictionary

  1. speleobiologist
  2. speleobiologists
  3. speleobiology
  4. speleobopper
  5. speleoboppers
  6. speleofact
  7. speleogen
  8. speleogenesis
  9. speleogenic
  10. speleological
  11. speleologically

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