sea-foam
101scud — Synonyms and related words: Cloudcuckooland, alto cumulus, alto stratus, anvil cloud, banner cloud, billowy cloud, blast, blow, bolt, brash, breakers, burst, burst of rain, burst of speed, canter, cap cloud, career, cirro cumulus, cirro fillum,… …
102meerschaum — [mir′shəm, mir′shôm΄] n. [Ger, lit., sea foam (< meer, sea + schaum, foam), transl. of ML spuma maris, orig. used of coral, calque of Gr halos hachnē: name transferred in 18th c. Ger to a variety of lithomarge] 1. a soft, claylike,… …
103meerschaum — n. 1 a soft white form of hydrated magnesium silicate, chiefly found in Turkey, which resembles clay. 2 a tobacco pipe with the bowl made from this. Etymology: G, = sea foam f. Meer sea + Schaum foam, transl. Pers. kef i darya, with ref. to its… …
104meer|schaum — «MIHR shuhm, shm», noun. 1. a very soft, white, clayey mineral, used especially to make tobacco pipes; sepiolite. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesium. »He dried the meerschaum mug and put it back in the cabinet (New Yorker). Formula:… …
105Coastal erosion — Many stretches of the East Anglia, England coastline are prone to heavy levels of erosion, such as this, the collapsed section of cliffs at Hunstanton, Norfolk. Coastal erosion is the wearing away of land and the removal of beach or dune… …
106Concordant coastline — A concordant, longitudinal, or Pacific type coastline occurs where beds, or layers, of differing rock types are folded into ridges that run parallel to the coast.[1] The outer hard rock (for example, granite) provides a protective barrier to… …
107Marine transgression — A marine transgression is a geologic event during which sea level rises relative to the land and the shoreline moves toward higher ground, resulting in flooding. Transgressions can be caused either by the land sinking or the ocean basins filling… …
108MV Senopati Nusantara — The M/s Senopati Nusantara was an Indonesian ferry that sank in a storm on December 30, 2006. The Japanese made ship (built in 1969[citation needed]) was a scheduled passenger line from port of Kumai …
109Marine regression — is a geological process occurring when areas of submerged seafloor are exposed above the sea level. The opposite event, marine transgression, occurs when flooding from the sea covers previously exposed land.[1] Evidence of marine regressions and… …
110scum — [13] Scum is etymologically a ‘layer on top’ of something. The word’s modern connotations of ‘dirt’ are a secondary development. It comes ultimately from scuttle 444 prehistoric Germanic *skūman, a derivative of the base *skū ‘cover’, and its… …
