| 单词 |
serir |
| 释义 |
serir Physical Geogr.|səˈrɪə(r)|
Pl. serir, serirs.
[Arab. serir dry.]
In Libya and Egypt: a flat area of desert strewn with rounded pebbles and boulders. Cf. reg2.
1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 149/2 Nearly all the rest of the Sahara consists in the main of undulating surfaces of rock.., vast tracts of water-worn pebbles (serir), and regions of sandy dunes. 1925W. F. Hume Geol. Egypt I. iv. 88 The same undulating ‘serir’ pebble-strewn country extends to the west of the Nile Valley, forming low undulations which are nevertheless sufficiently developed for whole camel parties to become rapidly lost to sight. 1942O. D. von Engeln Geomorphol. xviii. 411 In the Libyan Sahara similar surface sheets, there composed of coarse rounded pebbles, a pebble armor, are known as serir; in the western Sahara smaller rounded pebbles, tightly packed, constitute the reg. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia III. 486/2 Evaporation of capillary water may cause the precipitation of calcium carbonate, gypsum, and other salts that cement the pebbles together to form a desert conglomerate. In the western Sahara such a surface is known as a reg.., whereas in the eastern Sahara it is called a serir. |
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