relict
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- noun
- /ˈrɛlɪkt/
- Specialized
- Relict sites can be found in those places as well, but they dominate the drier landform types.
- relict channel
Examples
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Decoupling processes may be responsible for our solar radiation finding, where mean solar radiation is higher at occupied than at relict sites.
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At Massacre Range, although occupied sites tended to be at lower elevations than relict sites, they were often in cooler microsites.
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Three of the relict Black Rock Range sites were also the hottest sites of the survey area, using minimum July temperature as the measure.
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Median elevation of definitively occupied sites was 29 m higher than that of relict sites.
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The relict channel also had higher solutes, including nutrients, than other dry valleys.
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Satellite images reveal what appear to be relict stream channels in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region.
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For relict sites, median water year precipitation was 14.2 mm less than for currently occupied sites; although, as with elevation, relict sites in the Black Rock Range had the highest water year precipitation of all sites in the survey region.
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In 3 of the 7 ranges (Home Camp Range, Massacre Range, and Painted Point Range), the median elevation of relict sites was higher than that of occupied sites.
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The parking lot is a relict of a small ski area built in 1957 that was quite summarily eradicated in 1978 by an avalanche.
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The geologist studied the relict landscape to understand the region's past geological history.
Synonyms
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A small piece, often cloth, left when the rest is used or thrown away
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A thing from the past kept because it is important or valuable
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Old objects found in the ground that tell us about the past
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A small part that remains from something that once existed
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An object, custom, or idea from long ago that seems out of date
How Much Remains
Surface Forms
Etymology
Relict comes from the Latin relictus, which means 'left behind', and is like the word relic for something from the past. So a geological relict is a piece of the old land that was 'left behind' after the rest wore away.