Clastic vs Detritus - What's the difference?
clastic | detritus |
made up of parts that are easily removable.
(geology, of rock) made from fragments of pre-existing rocks.
(countable, chiefly, geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
(biology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
debris or fragments of disintegrated material
As an adjective clastic
is made up of parts that are easily removable.As a noun detritus is
detritus.clastic
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(wikipedia clastic)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* clast * volcaniclastic * pyroclasticdetritus
English
Noun
(wikipedia detritus)- 2001'. "But of course: no clutter. No newspapers, no renegade scraps of domestic '''detritus , no rubber bands, paper clips, coupons, pens or pencils, notebooks, magazines. No knives. Where were the knives?" — Chip Kidd. ''The Cheese Monkeys
