Regolith

What do we mean by regolith?

The layer of loose rock resting on bedrock, constituting the surface of most land. noun

‘Blanket-rock’: in petrography, a term applied by Merrill (1897) to the covering of loose material resting upon the solid rocks of the globe. It is derived from the decay of rocks, accumulations of vegetation, talus, debris, and sediments of all kinds. noun

The layer of loose rock, dust, sand, and soil, resting on the bedrock, that constitutes the surface layer of most dry land on earth, the moon, and other large solid aggregated celestial objects. There can also be sub-marine regolith.) noun

The layer of loose rock, dust, sand, and soil, resting on the bedrock, that constitutes the surface layer of most dry land on Earth, the Moon, and other large solid aggregated celestial objects. Submarine regolith also exists.

Words that are spelled similarly to regolith:
regolith, eolith, megalith, neolith, xenolith, regality, pedolith, aerolith, sebolith, repolish, fecolith, regoliths.

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Adjectives that are often used to describe regolith:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective regolith:
material, thickness, formation, breccia, breccias, development, cover, evolution, stripping, production, depth, mapping, movement, porosity, layer, quartz, time, system, soil, slope, geology, stratigraphy, materials, form, downslope.

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