Honestly.. I don't have a favorite word, but Primarrumpf has stuck in my mind for sometime.
I posted it as a geology quiz a couple of years ago. It's a german word for the oldest preserved planation surface or peneplain on the continent. In the Indian context the Primarrumpf developed during a long period of tectonic stability through the late Paleozoic and Mesozoic, wherein the Precambrian cratonic shield was eroded to a low relief landscape or peneplain. Its often referred to as the Gondwana surface.
A friend who is not a geologist emailed me at that time and told me that she thought Primarrumpf meant a primate's rump.. not too far off since rumpf means body or torso!
so the happy memories :)
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I posted it as a geology quiz a couple of years ago. It's a german word for the oldest preserved planation surface or peneplain on the continent. In the Indian context the Primarrumpf developed during a long period of tectonic stability through the late Paleozoic and Mesozoic, wherein the Precambrian cratonic shield was eroded to a low relief landscape or peneplain. Its often referred to as the Gondwana surface.
A friend who is not a geologist emailed me at that time and told me that she thought Primarrumpf meant a primate's rump.. not too far off since rumpf means body or torso!
so the happy memories :)
This posting is in response to Accretionary Wedge #35 hosted by Georneys.
I thought at first it was fancy phonetics for guffawing something
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