paleodesert
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paleodesert (plural paleodeserts)
- A prehistoric desert.
- 1985, Peter Laznicka, Empirical metallogeny: depositional environments, lithologic associations and metallic ores:
- Although both the facies mentioned above may have formed in paleodeserts, the metallic minerals and the petroleum were introduced subsequently, after burial and during diagenesis.