Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to denudation; effective in causing denudation.
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Examples
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Both mother and father died, and patient was in several hospitals after 36, obscene, denudative, onanist.
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By methods based on the approximate uniformity of denudative effects in the past, a period of the order of 100 millions of years has been obtained as the duration of our geological age; and consistently whether we accept for measurement the sediments or the dissolved sodium.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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A leading and fundamental inference in the denudative history of the Earth thus finds support: indeed, we may say, verification.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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Age of Earth, comparison of denudative and radioactive methods of finding, 23-29.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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When the consolidated sediments are by these and by succeeding movements forced upwards into mountains, they are exposed to denudative effects greatly exceeding those which affect the plains.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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Even while constructive effects were still in progress, denudative forces were not idle.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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As to the actual amount of land which was exposed during past times to denudative effects, no data exist to show it was very different from what is now exposed.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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This gives us the clue to the denudative history of the
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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The basis of our reasoning is that the ocean owes its saltness mainly if not entirely to the denudative activities we have been considering.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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The summation of the amounts of dissolved and detrital materials which denudation has brought into the ocean during the long denudative history of the Earth, as we might anticipate, reveals quantities of almost unrealisable greatness.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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