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bafflestone

noun

Etymology

From baffle + stone.

  1. derived from *steyh₂-✻ — “to stiffen”
  2. inherited from *stainaz✻ — “stone”
  3. inherited from *stain✻
  4. inherited from stān
  5. inherited from ston
  6. compounded as bafflestone — “baffle + stone”

Definitions

  1. A kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition,…

    A kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition, reducing the local depositional energy.

    • The ingredients for recognizing a bafflestone are the presence of a large number of in-situ stalk-shaped fossils, and a good imagination on the part of the geologist.

The neighborhood

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