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Definition of Nodules
1. nodule [n] - See also: nodule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nodules
Literary usage of Nodules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"inches in thickness, containing phosphatic nodules embedded in a line clayey matrix.
... The nodules are confined to the lower 5 feet of tho shales, ..."
2. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"Where it can be raised, thick masses of nodules can be seen on the dura and in the
... Several clusters of nodules are on the anterior poles of the temporal ..."
3. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1886)
"In many stratified rocks are found nodules of various forms scattered through
the mass or in layers parallel to the planes of stratification. ..."
4. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1894)
"Stubbs, made upon a number of samples of these nodules, and described in the
Bulletin No. 5, of the State Agricultural Department, have shown that acid ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"245), describes small nodules which are frequently seen along the branches of
... The formation of dense supra-arterial nodules over the weakened area holds ..."
6. Geology of the Non-metallic Mineral Deposits Other Than Silicates by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"Many older beds of phosphate nodules in the stratigraphic series have been
interpreted as formed in a manner analogous to the modern deep water nodules of ..."
7. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"Clay-ironstone nodules, Pyrite, Marcasite, Gypsum, Dendrites. ... Flint nodules
are usually irregular in form, and vary in size up to a foot or more in ..."
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