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Definition of Epeiric
1. Adjective. Describing the part of a sea that lies over a continental shelf ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epeiric
1. pertaining to vertical movement of the earth's crust [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epeiric
Literary usage of Epeiric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"... from their relations to the continents, may be termed epeiric seas (Greek,
... the epicontinental and epeiric seas, the following characters obtain: The ..."
2. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1921)
"The several epeiric seas which covered the continents of the Palaeozoic were ...
Unless these epeiric seas became confluent, their faunas remained more or ..."
3. A Comprehensive Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1921)
"Unless these epeiric seas became confluent, their faunas remained more or less
distinct, being derived in each case from the ocean of which the epeiric sea ..."
4. Geology of the Non-metallic Mineral Deposits Other Than Silicates by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"epeiric Seas.—These differ from the mediterraneans in the absence of the abyssal
... Typical examples of modern epeiric seas are: Hudson Bay, the North Sea ..."
5. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1919)
"... from the north and filled the old basins of continental deposition, overflowing
their rims and eventually spreading out as a broad epeiric water body. ..."
6. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences by Washington Academy of Sciences (1915)
"Schuchert has called attention to the greater persistence of equatorial epeiric
seas and the readvance of waters more frequently from lower toward higher ..."
7. The Evolution of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: A Series Delivered Before by Joseph Barrell, Charles Schuchert, Lorande Loss Woodruff, Richard Swann Lull, Ellsworth Huntington (1918)
"... AND epeiric SEAS OF N. AMERICA. CHARLES SCHUCHERT •CM.f or FIG. 9.—Generalized
map of North America in Paleozoic time, showing in white the lands or ..."
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