wave-built terrace . A gently sloping coastal feature at the seaward or lakeward edge of a wave-cut platform, constructed by sediment brought by rivers or drifted along the shore or across the platform and deposited in the deeper water beyond. Cf: marine terrace; beach plain. Syn: wave-built platform.
GeoWord of the Day
The GeoWord of the Day is a free service of the American Geosciences Institute. All of the terms and definitions are from the Glossary of Geology, 5th Edition Revised.
wind-polished stone (wind'-pol-ished). A ventifact having a desert polish.
formation evaluation . The process of evaluating gas- or oil-bearing formations penetrated by a well or wells, and of appraising their commercial significance.
interval scale . A continuous scale of measurement that has an arbitrary origin and in which the differences between successive units of the scale are constant. The Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales are classic examples. Cf: nominal scale; ordinal scale; ratio scale.
suspension feeder . An animal that obtains its food by removing particulate organic matter from water, but not necessarily through the use of a filter. Cf: filter feeder.
suspension feeder . An animal that obtains its food by removing particulate organic matter from water, but not necessarily through the use of a filter. Cf: filter feeder.
water mass . (a) A body of seawater having a characteristic temperature and salinity range defined by a temperature-salinity curve. (b) A mixture of two or more water types. See also: intermediate water; deep water; bottom water [oceanog]; surface water.
lake [coast] . A term loosely applied to a sheet of water lying along a coast and connected with the sea; e.g. one of the shallow (1-2 m deep), interconnected bodies of water in the Florida Bay area, Fla.
statistical lithofacies (sta-tis'-ti-cal). A lithofacies that grades laterally into its neighbors and whose boundaries are vertical arbitrary-cutoff planes (Weller, 1958, p.633). Cf: intertongued lithofacies.
prism [cryst] . A crystal form having three, four, six, eight, or twelve faces, with parallel intersection edges, and which is open only at the two ends of the axis parallel to the intersection edges of the faces.
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