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Definition of Shastan
1. Noun. A group of languages of the Hokan family in California.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shastan
Literary usage of Shastan
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)
"69 B. "See papers of Diller, Stanton, and Turner, cited under the Lower
Cretaceous (shastan), p. 122. • Anderson, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Third Series, Vol. ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"The Chico series rests on the shastan or ... in the southern part of the Coast
Range of California,4 and overlaps the shastan system at other points, ..."
3. Kato Texts by Pliny Earle Goddard, Bill Ray (1910)
"In common with the shastan languages, and some of those of Central California,
is its use of verbal instrumental prefixes. It will be seen, therefore, ..."
4. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"Into this subsiding trough the shastan sea (Le Conte) spread, ... The shastan
overlap is also known in northern Washington and along the Canadian and ..."
5. A College Text-book of Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1909)
"They are known here as the shastan group,* made up of the Knoxville series below
and the ... Where the base of the shastan series has been observed, ..."
6. Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast: A Guide-book for Scientific by Pacific Coast Committee (1915)
"The early Cretaceous (the shastan of the west coast) was marked by the rapid
advance of the Pacific Ocean over the western portion of the Pacific States. ..."
7. Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast: A Guide-book for Scientific by Pacific Coast Committee, Betty Hoag McGlynn (1915)
"The early Cretaceous (the shastan of the west coast) was marked by the rapid
advance of the Pacific Ocean over the western portion of the Pacific States. ..."
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