paleoflow
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The direction and characteristics of ancient water flow, as inferred from sedimentary structures and features such as ripple marks, crossbedding, and imbricated clasts.
Example Sentences
- "... paleoflow directions; white arrows denote inferred drainage directions. Paleoflow data for the Healy quadrangle from the following sources : lower part of the Cantwell Formation, Trop (1996) and Ridgway and others (1997); upper[…]"
- "PALEOFLOW PATTERNS / A total of 115 paleoflow measurements were obtained in the study area. About 60% of the measurements are considered accurate […]"
- "... paleoflow studies in the Upper Devonian Catskill Delta complex that yielded paleoflow trends generally orthogonal (west to west-northwest) to the assumed Acadian orogenic front (Table 1). […] paleoflows resulted from short-lived fault scarps that redirected the paleoflows. Assuming that fault activity did result in the anomalous-trending paleoflows, we have used the stratigraphic thicknesses of the units for which we[…]"
- "... paleoflow was to the southwest for the Todagin assemblage, but may have changed to south-southeast there during deposition of the Eaglenest deltaic assemblage (Fig. 139, 141). Consistent southwesterly paleoflow in Late Jurassic strata[…]"