detrital
- a word derived from detritus.
Example Sentences
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These isotopes helped determine whether clay minerals played a role in fossilization and whether those clays came from land, known as detrital clays, or formed directly within the seafloor, known as authigenic clays.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026
The results showed that detrital clay particles were already present in the sediment that covered the organisms.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026
"We found that many animals at the depth of discharge depend on naturally occurring small detrital particles -- the very food that mining plume particles replace."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2025
Clastic or detrital sedimentary rocks are made from pieces of bedrock, sediment, derived primarily by mechanical weathering.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
This detrital tin-ore was probably used as a source of the metal before the primitive miners had learnt to attack the solid tin-bearing rocks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
