| 单词 |
tafoni |
| 释义 |
tafoni, n. pl. Geol.|tæˈfəʊnɪ| [a. G. tafoni pl. (F. C. A. Penck Morph. d. Erdoberfläche (1894) I. 214), a. Corsican dial. tafóni pl., holes, hollows.] Shallow rounded hollows in rock produced by weathering.
1942C. A. Cotton Climatic Accidents in Landscape Making i. 9 Rarely or never are positive signs of sand-blasting found in association with typical tafoni. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 1103/1 Smaller rounded depressions may diversify the larger tafoni. 1970R. J. Small Study of Landforms ix. 294 Cavity weathering, leading to the formation of rounded hollows (‘tafoni’) in granite, may also be due to chemical decay, since it occurs commonly in shaded areas where moisture is likely to linger. |

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