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Definition of Submergences
1. submergence [n] - See also: submergence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Submergences
Literary usage of Submergences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Discussions on Climate and Cosmology by James Croll (1886)
"—Objection as to the Number of submergences.—Interglacial Periods less strongly
marked in Temperate Regions than Glacial. II. ..."
2. How the Great Prevailing Winds and Ocean Currents are Produced, and how They by Charles Austin Mendell Taber (1882)
"... latitudes great ice periods, and intervening eras of mild weather ; and also
during such periods causing submergences and uprisings of extensive lands. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"On the other hand the internal plains of America and Europe were often submerged.
Such submergences are indicated by the great limestones of the ..."
4. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1887)
"Such submergences are indicated by the great limestones of the Palaeozoic, by
the chalk and its representative beds in the Cretaceous, ..."
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