bafflestone

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

baffle +‎ stone

Noun[edit]

bafflestone (countable and uncountable, plural bafflestones)

  1. A kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition, reducing the local depositional energy.
    • 2013, Erik Flügel, Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks: Analysis, Interpretation and Application:
      The ingredients for recognizing a bafflestone are the presence of a large number of in-situ stalk-shaped fossils, and a good imagination on the part of the geologist.