Subcrustal
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Subcrustal is an adjective meaning (geology) Underneath the crust (of the Earth).
Meaning
(geology) Underneath the crust (of the Earth).
More Meanings
- (geology) Of or relating to the subcrust.
Example Sentences
This provides an alternative mechanism for the documented large-scale river captures in the east-Tibetan drainage, previously suggested to be a record of a late uplift event perhaps related to subcrustal processes and dated as Miocene or later.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lithosphere, subcrustaceous, sublithospheric, subcontinental, intracrustal, subterrestrial.
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