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imbrication::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | lapping, overlapping |
| Type of | covering |
| Derivation | imbricate |
Examples of imbrication
imbrication
The bulk of conglomerates deposited in this setting are clast-supported with a strong AB-plane imbrication.
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In this setting, conglomerates are normally very well sorted, well-rounded and often with a strong A-axis type imbrication of the clasts.
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- Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
- (imbricate) place so as to overlap; "imbricate the roof tiles"
- (imbricated) imbricate: used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles
- In sedimentology imbrication refers to a primary depositional fabric consisting of a preferred orientation of clasts such that they overlap one another in a consistent fashion, rather like a run of toppled dominoes. Imbrication is observed in conglomerates and some volcaniclastic deposits.
- (Imbricate) Aestivation or Estivation, refers to the positional arrangement of the parts of a flower within a flower bud before it has opened. ...
- (Imbricated) To imbricate means to overlap in a regular pattern.
- A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish; overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or correctional surgery; a sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap
- (Imbrications) Ornaments which take the form of fishes' scales or the segmented edge of tiles that overlap.
- (imbricate) closely packed and overlapping. cf. valvate
