Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, situated or operating below the earth's outer shell or crust: applied both to materials and to forces.
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Examples
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So maybe there are enormous subcrustal water reservoirs ... but why would they well to the surface right now in an eyeblink compared with the history of the planet?
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Hal Semkin clung to the hot springs theory despite Jacalan's counterarguments, while Hwang was trying to put together a theory allowing for warm subcrustal emissions of heat and moisture which would not conflict with the geologist's findings.
The Deluge Drivers Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
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It is perhaps from such a subcrustal layer that the lava of volcanoes is supplied.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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The idea that mountain folds, and the lesser rugosities of the Earth's surface, arose in a wrinkling of the crust under the influence of cooling and skrinkage of the subcrustal materials, is held by many eminent geologists, but not without dissent from others.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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It must be assumed that the crust in following downwards the shrinking subcrustal magma, develops immense compressive stresses in
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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It refers actually to the torrential rain, which came not only from rainclouds but also fell back to earth after gushing out of the subcrustal springs.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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See also, three of which are supposed to have subcrustal oceans.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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Which, of course, it was: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge was where the subcrustal ocean, also known as "the fountains of the great deep," broke free of its confines.
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In the 600th year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that very day the deep subcrustal springs were broken open, and the windows of the sky were thrown open.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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The subcrustal springs and the windows of the sky were stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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