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Definition of Crustal
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the crust of the earth or moon.
Definition of Crustal
1. a. Relating to a crust.
Definition of Crustal
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or forming a crust, especially the crust of the Earth or other planet etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crustal
1. pertaining to the earth's crust [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crustal
Literary usage of Crustal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"crustal Movements of the Pliocene.3 The tendency to crustal movement both by
warping and by faulting, which characterized the western part of the continent ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"crustal Movements of the Pliocene.3 The tendency to crustal movement both by
warping and by faulting, which characterized the western part of the continent ..."
3. Superfund And Mining Megasites: Lessons from the Coeur D'alene River Basin by National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"For example, lead concentrations on fine particles might be enhanced, whereas
iron and manganese are crustal elements, so their concentrations would be ..."
4. Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms: Or, The Origin of Landforms by James Geikie (1898)
"Indeed, we might group all basins roughly in two divisions, according as they
owe their origin more or less directly to crustal deformation and fracture, ..."
5. Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms: Or, The Origin of Landforms by James Geikie (1898)
"... BASINS DUE TO crustal DEFORMATION—CRATER-LAKES—DISSOLUTION BASINS—LAKES ...
to crustal deformation and fracture, or to the action of surface-agents. ..."
6. Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington, Stephen Sargent Visher (1922)
"... XII POST-GLACIAL crustal MOVEMENTS AND CLIMATIC CHANGES AN interesting practical
application of some of the f\ preceding generalizations is found in an ..."
7. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1919)
"CHAPTER VIII crustal MOVEMENTS. DIASTROPHISM SECULAR CHANGES IN many places the
coastal lands appear recently to have risen from the sea, while in others ..."
8. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"Origin of Joints—Contraction, Expansion, crustal Movements. JOINTS are superinduced
divisional planes which traverse rocks in different directions and at ..."
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