Detrital

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  • adj. Consisting of, or pertaining to, geological detritus.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of fragments or particles broken or worn away.
    • Word Usage
    "Heinrich events occurred during times of decreasing sea surface temperatures in the form of brief, exceptionally large discharges of icebergs in the North Atlantic from the Laurentide and European Ice Sheets that left conspicuous layers of detrital material in deep-sea sediments."
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    detrital rock   
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