Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigenic
Literary usage of Epigenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical and Geological Essays by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"... in certain cases, into crystalline gneisses and mica-schists, resembling those
of the primary formations, and like them subject to epigenic changes. ..."
2. Mineral Physiology and Physiography: A Second Series of Chemical and by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"... in the case just mentioned, shows its epigenic origin, ... and as I have
described,* it seems not less difficult to assign to them an epigenic origin. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... all the characters of altered sedimentary deposits, and from their mode of
occurrence cannot be of igneous origin, nor the result of epigenic action. ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"The production of these epigenic products, as was said in 1885, ... Its frequent
occurrence as an epigenic product is one of the many examples to be met ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"... all the characters of altered sedimentary deposits, and from their mode of
occurrence cannot be of igneous origin, nor the result of epigenic action. ..."
6. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1891)
"Their relation with ferruginous shales and sandstones alternating with the
limestones is almost equally intimate. Not only was the epigenic or secondary ..."
7. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"When the epigenic origin of serpentine and its related rocks was first taught,
these were regarded as eruptive and unstratified, and it was easy to imagine ..."
8. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"The production of these epigenic products, as was said in 1886, ... Its frequent
occurrence as an epigenic product is one of the many examples to be met ..."
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