Crossword-Solution: TERRANE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Terrane | n. | A group of rocks having a common age or origin; -- nearly equivalent to formation, but used somewhat less comprehensively. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “TERRANE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Geological area. | 1 answer |
| Rock formation, to geologists | 1 answer |
| Series of related rock formations | 1 answer |
| Geologic formation | 3 answers |
| rock formation | 10 answers |
| GEOLOGICAL formation | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with TERRANE (3)
Many of the stratified rocks contain fossils--that is, records of the life of the time they were deposited, and after the order of succession of a large number of formations has been ascertained, the life records they contain may be used as a means of determining the age of a newly discovered terrane.
Obviously the chances of a system of stratified rocks becoming metamorphosed or of being removed by erosion, are greater the nearer their position to the base of the sedimentary series; in a similar way the chances of a sedimentary terrane becoming invaded by igneous intrusions is greater the greater its age; again, the older a sedimentary terrane the greater the chances of its becoming buried by subsequent deposition and the less the likelihood of its being exposed for study.
These last, however, cannot be sharply distinguished from the granitic rocks derived from other parts of the Laurentian terrane.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1951–2013).