Definition, Betydning, Synonymer & Anagrammer | engelsk word DRIPSTONE

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Definitioner af DRIPSTONE

1. A water filter in which impurities are removed by running water through a porous stone.
2. (architecture) A protective moulding over a door or window that allows rain to drip away from the structure.
3. (geology) Stalactites and stalagmites collectively.

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Eksempler på brug af DRIPSTONE i en sætning

• Its roof is a single flat stratum of limestone; its walls are well marked by lines of stratification; dripstone also partly covers the walls, fills a deep fissure at the end of the cave, and spreads over the floor, where it mingles with an ancient bed of ashes, forming an ash-breccia (mostly firm and solid) that encloses fragments of sandstone, flint spalls, flint implements, charcoal and bones.
• The Mesozoic era-constituted cave features dripstone formations such as stalagmites, stalactites, pillars, wall and drapery dripstones, leakage stones, and around 60 pools and ponds of size.
• thumbLittle Wyandotte Cave is entirely separate from Big Wyandotte Cave and contains many flowstone and dripstone formations.
• The fourth story windows, surrounding the belfry, consist of three narrow louvered arches with a cusped dripstone and gable.
• The cave also includes boxwork and many dripstone formations including stalactites, stalagmites, columns, helictites and flowstone.
• Prastara consists of several parts from bottom to top: uttara, valabhi (stringcourse above uttara), and kapota (dripstone).
• Peeling layers are also well exposed at the upstream end of this level where the wall of the collapse trench slices across the lava tube to reveal telescoped shells of dripstone and lavacicles.

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