gilgai
English edit
Etymology edit
From Gamilaraay gilgaay (“small water hole”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gilgai (plural gilgais)
- (Australia) A small concavity or depression between ridges, where rainwater gathers.
- 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 160:
- Though it wasn′t a heavy storm it was enough to put water in gilgai holes and scatter the horses.
- 2005, Randall J. Schaetzl, Sharon Anderson, Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology, page 283:
- Argilliturbation is manifested within Vertisol profiles and on the surface as gilgai microtopography, with relief exceeding commonly 15 cm (Fig. 10.35).
- 2007, Richard Webster, Margaret A. Oliver, Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists, page 140:
- One of its most remarkable features is its patterns of gilgai. The gilgais are small, almost circular depressions from a few centimetres to as much as 50 cm deep in the plain and several metres across.