2. Adjective. (geology) Located or occurring beneath continental crust. ¹
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Definition of Subcontinental
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subcontinental
Literary usage of Subcontinental
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth (1907)
"This may be understood through consideration of the relations of a sub- oceanic
mass and a subcontinental mass lying adjacent to one another in the zone of ..."
2. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth, Charles Doolittle Walcott (1907)
"This may be understood through consideration of the relations of a sub- oceanic
mass and a subcontinental mass lying adjacent to one another in the zone of ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1906)
"The broad, blunt termination of Africa is thus likened to the tapering southern
end of South America, and the large subcontinental island of Madagascar is ..."
4. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin (1994)
"The source is more likely resident in subcontinental ... The occurrence of these
compositions within deep subcontinental lithosphère provides ..."
5. Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley (1884)
"... an area over which depression has taken place to an immense extent; consequently
a great continent, or assemblage of subcontinental masses of land, ..."
6. Leading American Men of Science by David Starr Jordan (1910)
"The greater density of the sub- oceanic masses in comparison with the subcontinental
masses, as shown by pendulum observations, indicates that the ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1908)
"The greater density of the suboceanic masses in comparison with the subcontinental
masses, as shown by pendulum observations, indicates that the distinction ..."
8. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1908)
"This steep drop from the subcontinental platform to the broad floor of the Pacific
must be regarded as the geomorphic expression of a rather acute ..."
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