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Definition of Subaerial
1. Adjective. (geology) Located or occurring at the Earth's surface, especially on land ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subaerial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subaerial
Literary usage of Subaerial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Student's Manual of Geology by Joseph Beete Jukes (1872)
"subaerial Denudation as affected by Subterranean Movements of Upheaval or ...
Depression, therefore, is thus, on the whole, unfavourable to subaerial ..."
2. A Manual of the Geology of India: Chiefly Compiled from the Observations of by Geological Survey of India, Henry Benedict Medlicott, William Thomas Blanford (1893)
"Soc., XXX, 325, (1874), will show that the arguments used by Professar Judd to
prove the subaerial origin of the volcanic rocks in the west of Scotland and ..."
3. Elements of Geology by Alonzo Gray, Charles Baker Adams (1863)
"The subaerial phenomena are those whicn occur on or near the surface of the dry
... SECTION I.—subaerial IGNEOUS AGENCY. I. Volcanoes,—There are about 300 ..."
4. Manual of Physical Geography by Frederick Valentine Emerson (1909)
"How does a cirque differ from the head-water region of a stream due to subaerial
erosion ? Is Mount Mitchell an isolated peak or a part of a range? ..."
5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1868)
"On subaerial Denudation, and on Cliffs and Escarpments of the Chalk and the Lower
Tertiary Beds. By WILLIAM WHITAKER, BA, FGS, &c. 8vo, pp. 27. ..."
6. The Student's Handbook of Physical Geology by Alfred John Jukes-Browne (1892)
"Dr. Geikie has calculated that if the sea eats away the edge of a continent at
the rate of 10 feet in a century, and subaerial agents remove a layer one ..."
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