Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, hypogene.
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Examples
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But in the case of ordinary glaciers -- ice-streams -- the bowlders of the terminal deposit are mixed; the angular or upper-formed predominating in the small existing glaciers of temperate climates, but the rounded or nether-formed greatly predominating in the grand old glaciers of which we have been speaking.
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The moraine, therefore, consists wholly of nether-formed and nether-borne severely triturated materials (_moraine profunde_).
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The rocks which I have termed endogenous are characteristically distinguished by Lyell, in his 'Principles of Geology', 1833, vol. iii., p. 374, as "nether-formed" or "hypogene rocks."
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Lyell, Charles, investigations on the numerical relations of extinct and organic life, 274, 275; nether-formed or hypogene rocks, 249; uniformity of the production of erupted rocks, 257.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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