ripple mark
noun
1
: one of a series of small ridges produced especially on sand by the action of wind, a current of water, or waves
2
: a striation across the grain of wood especially on the tangential surface
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About 10 centimeters of sandstone now covers the paleosurface, which sits furrowed with ancient ripple marks.
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Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
That’s because the grooves were cutting through real-time tidal ripple marks moving through the seamount sediment.
—Todd Woody, National Geographic, 24 July 2019
Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
That’s because the grooves were cutting through real-time tidal ripple marks moving through the seamount sediment.
—Todd Woody, National Geographic, 24 July 2019
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First Known Use
1831, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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