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Definition of Accretionary
1. Adjective. Marked or produced by accretion.
Derivative terms: Accretion, Accretion, Accretion, Accretion, Accretion, Accretion
Definition of Accretionary
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or in the form of an accretion ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Accretionary
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accretionary
Literary usage of Accretionary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fluid Flow Through Faults and Fractures in Argillaceous Formations by Nuclear Energy Agency (1998)
"[24] Fisher, AT, Zwart, G. and the Leg 156 Shipboard Scientific Party, Permeability
and fluid pressure along the decollement of the Barbados accretionary ..."
2. The Administration of Industrial Enterprises: With Special Reference to by Edward David Jones (1916)
"TJ PLAN the confusion of an accretionary factory type. Continued enlargements
rapidly lower the efficiency of such a plan; while radical enlargements mean a ..."
3. The Geological Record Of Ecological Dynamics: Understanding The Biotic by National Academies Press (U.S.) (2005)
"Direct Dating of Biological Materials Tree rings and their analogs in coral,
mollusk, and other accretionary hard parts provide a chronology based on the ..."
4. United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective by Ibrahim Abed, Peter Hellyer (2001)
"Subduction of the oceanic crust and the growth of an accretionary wedge of ...
an accretionary wedge of marine sediments that extends to the present ..."
5. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin (1994)
"Age spectra for individual samples were correlated to their depositional ages to
judge the degree of thermal affection during accretionary processes (Hasebe ..."
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