The rim of this lake is composed mostly of detrital rocks, which are rarely exposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference

When the ice begins to break up in spring, the seaweeds are torn from the rocks and enter into the detrital cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire] Reference

Most of the primary productivity is routed through detrital pathways but herbivory can be important, particularly by muskrats and geese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wetland classifications] Reference

Hence, as vegetation shifts from mosses and lichens to grasses and woody species, runoff is very likely to contain increasing concentrations of DOC and particulate detrital material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic] Reference

By September 2000, the meltwater channel had shifter southward and had eroded through 5 m of fluted moraine deposits exposing 2 additional rooted stumps and flushing an additional 40 detrital boles onto the outwash surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stumped in Alberta « Climate Audit] Reference

By September 2000, the meltwater channel had shifter southward and had eroded through 5 m of fluted moraine deposits exposing 2 additional rooted stumps and flushing an additional 40 detrital boles onto the outwash surface. gbalella.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stumped in Alberta « Climate Audit] Reference

Here we use records of diatoms, detrital material and geochemical parameters from six marine sediment cores in the vicinity of the Larsen ice shelf to demonstrate that the recent collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf is unprecedented during the Holocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Answers to the House Committee on Cross-Validation Statistics « Climate Audit] Reference

"The quartzite shows granoblastic and blastopsammitic texture, with grain sizes varying from coarse sand to very fine pebble and with minor microcrystals of sericite, fuchsite, andalusite and iron oxide, besides detrital tourmaline, rutile, and zircon." link.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

It does not go to increase the great body of detrital deposits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

Here the natives collect dust by laborious washings of detrital sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference

These nuggets are found in the detrital accumulations of denuded veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide to Capitalists and Emigrants: Being a Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America; Together with Letters of Prominent Citizens of the State in Relation to the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, &C., and an Account of the Swamp Lands of the State] Reference

The chemical composition of the detrital sediments which are spread over.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

Figure 38.11 Grazing food web (top) and detrital food web (bottom) 38-39.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

This drilling also intersected zones of detrital ore, which have not been closed off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

The margin of this new lake, acting upon the detrital matter, would form the second road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

In such scenes of desolation and destruction, detrital sediments are actively being generated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

The sides also became less vertical, and there was an accumulation of detrital fragments about their bases.    From Wordnik.com.  [A journey in other worlds A romance of the future] Reference

The fact is, the deposited detrital sediments around the continents occupy an area small when contrasted with the vast stretches of the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

The transport by denudation of detrital and dissolved matter from the land to the ocean has had a most important influence on the events of geological history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

The river supply of detrital sediment has not been very extensively investigated, although the quantities involved may be found with comparative ease and accuracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

The study of any considerable river basin enables us to trace the more important steps which lead to the destructure and renovation of the earth's detrital coating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference

Taking all the circumstances into account, you may, I think, with safety dismiss the detrital barrier as incompetent to account for the present condition of Glen Gluoy and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

He should see that his work brings two risks; he may impoverish the accumulation of detrital material by taking out the plant food more rapidly than it is prepared for use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference

J.W. Valley, W.H. Peck and C.M. Graham, 2001, Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago, Nature, 409, p. 175-178.    From Wordnik.com.  [科景新聞（綜合）] Reference

Field observations and dating of detrital minerals showed that some of the beds in the Maya Mountains are even older, having been deposited sometime in the Cambrian-Silurian eras.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

In almost every large area the process of erosion naturally leaves quantities of rock, either in the form of detached columns or as detrital accumulations deposited on steep slopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference

The negroes, who ignore pumps and steam-navvies, have neglected the obvious measure of deep-digging in all the stream-beds, where much detrital gold and even nuggets will assuredly be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference

The ages of detrital zircon grains in these allowed identifying age-groups which are consistent with a paleoposition along the periphery of the Gondwana paleocontinent in the early Paleozoic.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Placers are detrital or fragmental sediments containing the ore in mechanical fragments, which are derived from the erosion and transportation of solid-rock veins or lodes, sometimes called the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

And, again, the conditions of aeration and circulation which largely promote chemical and solvent denudation in the soils are relatively limited and ineffective in the detrital oceanic deposits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

We have now considered the source of the detrital sediments, as well as of the dissolved matter which has given to the ocean, in the course of geological time, its present gigantic load of salts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

Not only does the land life maintain itself on the soil, and give much to the sea, but it serves in various ways to protect this detrital coating from too rapid destruction, and to improve its quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference

Near the surface the pisolites are sometimes loosened by weathering, yielding a gravel ore, and some of the material has been transported a short distance to form detrital ores interstratified with sands and gravels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

Considerations such as the foregoing must convince us that while the accumulation of the detrital sediments around the continents is largely the result of activities progressing on the steeper slopes of the land, that is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

The summation of the amounts of dissolved and detrital materials which denudation has brought into the ocean during the long denudative history of the Earth, as we might anticipate, reveals quantities of almost unrealisable greatness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

The fragments may not even in themselves carry value, but may consist of detrital material from the leached outcrop -- such as iron or manganese oxides, which, because of their red or black color, stand out conspicuously in the rock débris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

No detrital fronds for Ev Barren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Warrior]