bafflestone

Etymology

From baffle + stone.

bafflestone means A kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition, reducing the local depositional energy. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.

noun

A kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition, reducing the local depositional energy.“The ingredients for recognizing a bafflestone are the presence of a large number of in-situ stalk-shaped fossils, and a good imagination on the part of the geologist.”