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Meaning of "stylolite" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STYLOLITE

From Greek stulos pillar + -lite.
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PRONUNCIATION OF STYLOLITE

stylolite  [ˈstaɪləˌlaɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STYLOLITE

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conjunction
determiner
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Stylolite is a noun.
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WHAT DOES STYLOLITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

stylolite

Stylolite

Stylolites or styolite are serrated surfaces within a rock mass at which mineral material has been removed by pressure dissolution, in a process that decreases the total volume of rock. Insoluble minerals, such as clays, pyrite and oxides, remain within the stylolites and make them visible. Sometime host rocks contain no insoluble minerals, in which case stylolites can be recognized by change in texture of the rock. They occur most commonly in homogeneous rocks, carbonates, cherts, sandstones, but they can be found in certain igneous rocks and ice. Their size vary from microscopic contacts between two grains to large structures up to 20 m in length and up to 10 m in amplitude in ice. Stylolites usually form parallel to bedding, because of overburden pressure, but they can be oblique or even perpendicular to bedding, as a result of tectonic activity.

Definition of stylolite in the English dictionary

The definition of stylolite in the dictionary is any of the small striated columnar or irregular structures within the strata of some limestones.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STYLOLITE


acolyte
ˈækəˌlaɪt
analyte
ˈænəˌlaɪt
Bakelite
ˈbeɪkəˌlaɪt
chrysolite
ˈkrɪsəˌlaɪt
cryolite
ˈkraɪəˌlaɪt
crystallite
ˈkrɪstəˌlaɪt
featherlight
ˈfeðəˌlaɪt
indicolite
ˈɪndɪkəˌlaɪt
iolite
ˈaɪəˌlaɪt
Israelite
ˈɪzrɪəˌlaɪt
lepidolite
lɪˈpɪdəˌlaɪt
metabolite
mɪˈtæbəˌlaɪt
microsatellite
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈsætəˌlaɪt
Naxalite
ˈnʌksəˌlaɪt
ophiolite
ˈɒfɪəˌlaɪt
polyelectrolyte
ˌpɒlɪɪˈlɛktrəˌlaɪt
satellite
ˈsætəˌlaɪt
socialite
ˈsəʊʃəˌlaɪt
tantalite
ˈtæntəˌlaɪt
zeolite
ˈziːəˌlaɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STYLOLITE

stylized
stylizer
stylobate
stylograph
stylographic
stylographical
stylographically
stylography
styloid
stylolitic
stylometry
stylopes
stylophone
stylopise
stylopize
stylopodia
stylopodium
stylops
stylostixes
stylostixis

WORDS THAT END LIKE STYLOLITE

actinolite
aerolite
amphibolite
antimetabolite
catabolite
coprolite
cosmopolite
crocidolite
elite
impolite
microlite
oolite
polite
rhodolite
rhyolite
saprolite
scapolite
sepiolite
staurolite
theodolite
tremolite

Synonyms and antonyms of stylolite in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «stylolite» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STYLOLITE

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The translations of stylolite from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stylolite» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

缝合线
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estilolita
570 millions of speakers

English

stylolite
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

stylolite
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

stylolite
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стилолите
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

stylolite
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

stylolite
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

stylolite
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Stylolit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

stylolite
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

stylolite
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

stylolite
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stylolite
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

stylolite
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

stylolite
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्टाइललाइट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

basınçlı çözelti
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stylolite
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stylolite
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стілоліте
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stylolite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

stylolite
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stylolite
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

stylolite
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stylolite
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stylolite

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STYLOLITE»

The term «stylolite» is used very little and occupies the 186.815 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STYLOLITE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stylolite

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STYLOLITE»

Discover the use of stylolite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stylolite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Microtectonics
Teeth in the stylolite surface commonly have secondary phases such as mica grains along the crowns,while teeth walls are commonly parallel so that the stylolite might be pulled apart without breaking the teeth. The indented shape of ...
Cees W. Passchier, Rudolph A. J. Trouw, 2005
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Geologic Analysis of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Fractures Associated with Stylolites Tension Gashes As shown in Figure 4-2, the columns or "peaks and valleys" of a stylolite parallel the maximum stress or strain direction during formation (Choukroune, 1969; Groshong, 1975; and Nelson, ...
Ronald Nelson, 2001
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Centennial Articles: Reprinted from Volume 100, Geological ...
The final stylolite surface reflects the strain history but is not necessarily perpendicular to the axis of finite shortening. The currently most satisfactory macroscopic description of stylolite formation and evolution is the anticrack model, first stated ...
Robert D. Hatcher, William A. Thomas, Geological Society of America, 1990
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Building Stone Decay: From Diagnosis to Conservation
Photomicrograph of the dense micritic structure of Kirmenjak with a stylolite in the middle. Plane polarized light. Scale bar is 1 mm. shows that, of the 10 tested stones. Kirmenjak has the lowest values for both porosity and water absorption.
European Geosciences Union. General Assembly, Richard Přikryl, Bernard J. Smith, 2007
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Deformation Microstructures and Mechanisms in Minerals and Rocks
of the stylolite, and is useful for kinematic analysis because it shows the direction of maximum finite shortening. The obliquity of the teeth of slickolites shows that there has been a component of shortening parallel to the slickolite surface (Fig.
Tom G. Blenkinsop, 2000
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Thrust Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Systems: AAPG Memoir 82
(b) Photograph of a profile of a limestone layer showing stylolite peaks oblique to bedding (horizontal). Note the inclined peaks of the stylolites, which make an angle of 608 with the bedding. (Teixell and Koyi, 2003). Evidence for penetrative  ...
Kenneth R. McClay, 2004
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Dolomites
Once dolomitization of a bed had commenced, it would continue until it met a barrier (Miller, 1983]. stylolite-controlled dolomitization Observations On the south side of Palmaria many of the dolomite fronts are constrained by bedding- parallel ...
B. H. Purser, M. E. Tucker, D. H. Zenger, 2009
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Advances in Geophysics
Quantifying the nature and amount of the dis- solved matter at stylolite level is much more reliable as it is based on the methods presented previously. For example, when using geometric markers (Figures 2.5 and 2.7), it can be shown that a ...
‎2013
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Carbonate Diagenesis
M. E. Tucker, R. G. C. Bathurst. Stylolite-controlled layering in an homogeneous limestone: pseudo-bedding produced by burial diagenesis J 0 H N S I M P S O N Department ofGeoiogy, University of Reading, Whireknights, Reading RG6 2A8.
M. E. Tucker, R. G. C. Bathurst, 2009
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Analysis of an Exposure of the Viola Group in the Arbuckle ...
... horizontal carbon stylolites lamination, mudshadows, very small vertical carbon -filled stylolite, horizontal carbon stylolites dissolution interval, micrite shadows, lamination, verticle calcite vein, verticle carbon-filled stylolite dissolution interval,  ...
Erin Noelle Payne, 2008

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STYLOLITE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stylolite is used in the context of the following news items.
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构造地质学科普(25)石头中永不消逝的电波
岩石中这些“电波”专业术语叫缝合线(Stylolite),是岩石内不同化学成分物质在压溶(Pressure solution)过程中溶解度不同所致,例如,方解石被溶解随流体搬运而去, ... «光明网, Apr 13»
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Great exploration targets in the Persian Gulf: the North Dome/South …
In some intervals, there are skeletal grainstones/packstones with vuggy, channel and fracture porosity and stylolite features. Secondary porosity is common in ... «Finding Petroleum, Feb 13»

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