younging

English

Noun

younging (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#YOUNGINGCategory:English nouns#YOUNGINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#YOUNGINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#YOUNGINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#YOUNGINGCategory:Pages with entries#YOUNGINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#YOUNGING

  1. (geologyCategory:en:Geology#YOUNGING) The direction in which stratigraphy becomes younger, for a particular formation
    • 2001 May 11, Timothy M. Kusky et al., “The Archean Dongwanzi Ophiolite Complex, North China Craton: 2.505-Billion-Year-Old Oceanic Crust and Mantle”, in Science‎, volume 292, number 5519, →DOI, pages 1142–1145:
      Where well preserved, the pillows show cuspate lower boundaries and lobate upper contacts, defining stratigraphic younging (Fig. 3 E).
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Verb

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  1. present participle and gerund of young
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