Citations:detritus

English citations of detritus

• 1843, Boston Journal of Natural History‎^[1], page 142:

  Shuttleworth's description of detrita has not priority over the name I have retained.

• 1871, American Journal of Syphilography and Dermatology‎^[2], page 352:

  Gull, and later Fagge, have advised, as a means of diagnosis of scabies (rather a method of finding the animal), to examine the detrita of the cuticle and accumulated crusts.

• 1896, Leonidas Spratt, Nature of an Universe of Life‎^[3], page 127:

  These formations, exclusive of the remains of organic beings, plant and animal, sparsely seen, consist but of the detrita of the original rock, or of the detrita of such detrita having first taken a different form; and this rock, not so covered by formations of its own detrita, appears at different places as a native granite, metamorphosed, merely, by a secondary force.

• 1997, Proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress‎^[4], page 52:

  But scanning electron microscope and optical microscope examinations of the red beds show a very low content of such detrita in coarser sediments such as sandstones and fine conglomerates.