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seam | American Dictionary

seam
noun[ C ]
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seamnoun[C] (JOINT)

a line where two things join, esp. where two pieces of cloth or other material have been sewn together:
My jacket came apart at the back seam.

seamnoun[C] (LAYER)

a long, thin layer of rock or another substance that formed between layers of other rocks:
a coal seam

Examples of seam

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The thinner seams also have a noticeable component of sphenophyll spores, indicating significant areas of open conditions allowing colonization by these scrambling plants.
The coal seams above p3 are not correlatable across the basin.
Note that the rock displays only one fabric: a matrix foliation of mostly thin mica seams and elongate quartz grains.
Clastic layers up to 10 cm thick are common within thick seams.
In thin-sections, the gneisses are cut by narrow pressure solution seams and narrow cataclastic shear zones.
The surfaces which appear as dark seams in hand specimen are stylolitic in mor phology and vary in width from 0.01 to 0.2 mm.
Only then will the limitations, error traps, and therapeutic seams surface, be recognized, and demand remediation.
Alteration of silicate phases is common adjacent to the chromitite layers and seams.
The erosion occurred in the depression when the lake that formed between the deposition of coal seams m8 and m12 was drained.
After the formation of the first two coal seams, small lakes were locally developed.
They generally lie subparallel to the fault surface and appear to be solution seams.
The system can be used to detect seams less than 0.5 mm wide and 0.5 mm deep.
Not only did the liberal approach begin to come apart at the seams, administration proposals would again and again collide into a conservative-controlled committee.
I know of no reason to doubt that the seams are original.
Women placed rubber on the bottoms of the cans by hand before they seamed the body of the can to the bottom.
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