microgour
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] microgours or even into small rimstone pools. Thin sections of calcite flowstone cut perpendicular to crenulations show that these are formed of fibrous calcite crystals in bundles normal to the surface (T. Ford, 1988)."
- "These features build up in stream channels or on flow-stones. The height ranges from millimeters (microgours, often on the downstream faces of larger dams) to many metres. They may be single, or interlocking to create a staircase of pools. Rims are straight, curved or crenulated."
- "[…] microgours (a cave formation in the form of a stone dam) in vertically-oriented flowstone and those occurring in horizontal rimstone dams, can be separated by breaks in averaged measurements or by different distributions."
- "Microgours are a subtype of flowstone speleothems: Above to the left, furled pigotite rimstone dams and microgours in the granite cave system of O Folón (municipality of Vigo, province of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain)."