Crossword clues for detrital
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detrital \De*tri"tal\, a. (Geol.) Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.
Wiktionary
a. (context geology English) Consisting of, or pertaining to, geological detritus.
Usage examples of "detrital".
In almost every large area the process of erosion naturally leaves quantities of rock, either in the form of detached columns or as detrital accumulations deposited on steep slopes.
A bahada had left its broad outwash like a detrital fan upon the sheltered floor of her domain.
From all of which we see that the Eastern hemisphere's crescent hollow--of which, I take it, the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Sea depressions are the remains--has been gradually filled in, by the elevation of the sea's bottom, and the extension of deltas from the detrital matter brought from the high interior of the continents by the rivers, or by the combined action of the two.