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词汇 Wealden
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Definition of Wealden in English:

Wealden

adjective ˈwiːld(ə)n
British
  • 1Relating to the Weald.

    〈英〉威尔德(地区)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The practice came about in consequence of this venture, and was loosely based on a Wealden custom at hop-picking time.
    • About 1340 Sir John de Pulteney, a London merchant and financier and four times mayor of London, constructed a splendid house of Wealden sandstone.
    • However, this concept is challenged by the discovery of different pollen cones from the Arkansas and English Wealden localities.
    1. 1.1 Denoting a style of timber house built in the Weald in the late medieval and Tudor periods.
      (中世纪及都铎王朝时代的木屋)威尔德式的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was talking about Cragside, that wonderful faux Wealden house in Northumberland with all the gadgets.
      • In the decade preceding 1348, we find a number of exceptionally large and lavish timber-framed buildings, including a giant Wealden house and a ‘skyscraper’ with a stone undercroft.
    2. 1.2Geology Relating to or denoting a series of Lower Cretaceous estuarine and freshwater deposits best exemplified in the Weald.
      〔地质〕威尔德型地质的;威尔德统的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Interestingly, regional seismic and borehole studies of the Lower Cretaceous in the English Channel indicate the presence of unconformities in the basal Wealden sediments, especially towards the basin margins.
      • The close proximity of the Isle of Wight-Purbeck fault zone probably also had an effect on Wealden sedimentation in the Wessex Basin, as the downthrow on these faults decreases to the west.
      • Because of their non-marine depositional setting, the Wealden sediments are not biostratigraphically constrained with a high degree of certainty.
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