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plastiglomerate

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō? Ancient Greek πλᾰ́σσω (plắssō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)der. Latin plasticusder. English plastic English conglomerate blend English plastiglomerate Blend of plastic + conglomerate. Coined by Patricia Corcoran and Charles Moore, who discovered the mineral formation containing plastics (synthetic polymer material).

  1. derived from plastic English conglomerate blend English plastiglomerate Blend of plastic + conglomerate
  2. derived from plasticusder

Definitions

  1. A type of rock with plastic inclusions

    • Plastiglomerates are a marker for Anthropocene rocks.
    • Santos and her team ran chemical tests to find out what kind of plastics are in the rocks called "plastiglomerates" because they are made of a mixture of sedimentary granules and other debris held together by plastic.

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