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detritus
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detritus /de·tri·tus/ (de-tri´tus) particulate matter produced by or remaining after the wearing away or disintegration of a substance or tissue.
de·tri·tus (d-trts)
n. pl. detritus
Loose matter resulting from the wearing away or disintegration of tissue or other material.
detritus (det´ritus),
n the fragments or scraps that cling to teeth, gingival tissues or other oral surfaces.
detritus
particulate matter produced by or remaining after the wearing away or disintegration of a substance or tissue.
detritus cysts
occur in arthritis where there is hemorrhage and necrotic bone.


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Common textures generated by mechanical compaction include thinning of laminate between, and draping over, concretions; flattening of burrows, fenestrae, gas-escape structures, desiccation cracks, and skeletal or detrital grains; rotated grains; spalling of coated grains; swirling structures; telescoping (conversion of grain-poor to grain-supported textures); and planar to curviplanar grain contacts.
Investigations of burial diagenesis in carbonate hydrocarbon ... by Machel, Hans G. / Geoscience Canada
The maximum thickness of the detrital sediments of the Delta to date is approximately 8,000 meters (Hospers 1965).
Economic and cultural prehistory of the Niger Delta by Anozie, F.N. / African Arts
Most of the team's mudstone grains shared few textural features with detrital quartz.
Study gives new answer for muddy mystery by Bennett, R. / Science News
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