Definition of Epeirogenic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epeirogenic

epauliere
epaxial
epazote
epazotes
epee
epeeist
epeeists
epeen
epees
epeira
epeiras
epeiric
epeirid
epeirids
epeirogenesis
epeirogenic (current term)
epeirogenically
epeirogenies
epeirogeny
epen
epencephala
epencephalic
epencephalon
ependyma
ependymal
ependymal cell
ependymal cyst
ependymal layer
ependymal zone
ependymas

Literary usage of Epeirogenic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"The morr- ments were epeirogenic, and involved the whole sphere. It has been though" incredible that the orographic climax should have come so near the end ..."

2. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1899)
"The paper will he printed in the Journal of Geology. • The following paper was then read: EVIDENCES OF epeirogenic MOVEMENTS ..."

3. Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1904)
"I.) epeirogenic disturbances.—In a previous paragraph it has been shown that the combined .ridge lines of the Clearwater Mountains (and also of part at ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"A simpler view of the epeirogenic movements, closing the Tertiary era and inaugurating the Quaternary, seems to me to be found in ascribing these beds to ..."

5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"The termination of the cycle of abundant fluvial deposition and ensuing erosion upon our great western Cretaceous area, and its renewed epeirogenic uplift ..."

6. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"Thus, in addition to the terms epeirogenic and erogenic, gradual warping ... Intermediate between the epeirogenic forces concerned in the making and moving ..."

7. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1893)
"It seems to be the key to the orogenic obstructions crossing the Antillean basins, which have been also partly modified by the epeirogenic movements. ..."

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