faciès
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin faciēs. Doublet of face.
Pronunciation
Noun
faciès m (uncountable)
- facies; appearance
- (geology) facies
- 1838, Amanz Gressly, “Observations géologiques sur le Jura Soleurois [Geological observations involving the Solothurn Jura]”, in Nouveau mémoires de la Société helvétique des sciences naturelles, volume 1, Neuchâtel: Buchdruckerei von Petitpierre, page 11:
- Et d’abord il est deux faits principaux, qui caractérisent partout les ensembles de modifications que j’appelle facies ou aspects de terrain: l’un consiste en ce que tel ou tel aspect pétrographique d’un terrain quelconque suppose nécessairement, partout où il se rencontre, le même ensemble paléontologique; l’autre, en ce que tel ou tel ensemble paléontologique exclut rigoureusement des genres et des espèces des fossiles fréquents dans d’autres facies.
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “faciès”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.