(chiefly of rocks and fertilizer) containing or consisting of phosphates.
(主要指岩石和肥料)含磷酸盐(或酯)的;由磷酸盐(或酯)组成的
Example sentencesExamples
The dissolution of limestones in weak acid is now a standard palaeontological laboratory technique, and has been used extensively to isolate phosphatic microfossils of all types from Paleozoic carbonates.
The basal part of the transgressive sandstone contains erosion surfaces, reworked bioclasts, phosphatic and glauconite pellets.
The sample was taken from a thin limestone lens with phosphatic oolites within the phosphatic greensand.
In time the combination solidifies to a phosphatic rock that, in crumbling, provides soil in which vegetation may take root.
Nodules rich in phosphatic material are found in residual accumulations along disconformities, such as bone beds or lag deposits in marine limestones and shales.
Definition of phosphatic in US English:
phosphatic
adjectivefäsˈfadikfɑsˈfædɪk
(chiefly of rocks and fertilizer) containing or consisting of phosphates.
(主要指岩石和肥料)含磷酸盐(或酯)的;由磷酸盐(或酯)组成的
Example sentencesExamples
The basal part of the transgressive sandstone contains erosion surfaces, reworked bioclasts, phosphatic and glauconite pellets.
In time the combination solidifies to a phosphatic rock that, in crumbling, provides soil in which vegetation may take root.
The dissolution of limestones in weak acid is now a standard palaeontological laboratory technique, and has been used extensively to isolate phosphatic microfossils of all types from Paleozoic carbonates.
The sample was taken from a thin limestone lens with phosphatic oolites within the phosphatic greensand.
Nodules rich in phosphatic material are found in residual accumulations along disconformities, such as bone beds or lag deposits in marine limestones and shales.