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Definition of Estuarine
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or found in estuaries.
Definition of Estuarine
1. a. Pertaining to an estuary; estuary.
Definition of Estuarine
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an estuary ¹
2. Adjective. (geology) Formed in an estuary by alluvial deposition ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Estuarine
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estuarine
Literary usage of Estuarine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1908)
"estuarine. The idea of estuarine origin was held by Crosby in connection with
... 90), expressions which might be interpreted as implying estuarine origin. ..."
2. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1906)
"estuarine CLAYS. estuarine clays are those deposited in long narrow arms of the
... An estuarine deposit is necessarily long and narrow, with a basin shaped ..."
3. The Journal of Science (1864)
"... as was shown by Professor Forbes, the fresh-water and estuarine strata which
occur there contain fossils exhibiting remarkable modifications of form ..."
4. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1873)
"The marine and estuarine beds occur intercalated with each other along the ...
A very narrow belt of mixed estuarine and fluviatile alluvium stretches up ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"58), stating that though the sand underlying the warp probably rested directly
on the chalk, the deposit was an estuarine clay of interglacial age. ..."
6. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips (1885)
"These estuarine beds pass up into a marine group, known in England as the Lower
... We must, therefore, admit the fluviatile or estuarine equivalency of the ..."
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