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teleseism

[tel-uh-sahy-zuhm]

noun Geology.

a tremor caused by an earthquake originating a great distance from the seismographic station that records it.

Origin:
tele-¹ + seism

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central portion of the earth believed to be composed mainly of iron and nickel in a molten state

ratio of the volume of the pores of a substance to the total volume of the mass

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