Subterrain

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(geology) The bedrock or rock layer that lies beneath the soil and superficial features of an area..

Definitions by Sense

1. (geology) The bedrock or rock layer that lies beneath the soil and superficial features of an area.
2. A cave or underground room.
3. An underground region.
4. An underlying basis or undercurrent.
5. Synonym of subterranean.

Example Sentences

In this way at least a crude picture of the subterrain can be built up during the survey.

Two subterrains have been recognised, separated by thrust boundaries: a) Baltic Cover Thrust Sheets b) Crystalline Basement Thrust Sheets

The Kabarginskiy subterrain is represented by rocks of the Upper Proterozoic and Lower Paleozoic, in the form of a band of sublatitudinal strike running through the northern part of the region.

Although our conclusions follow from the numerical analyses of a specific case of the city of Zagreb, they are valid wherever the subterrain is complex enough to produce significantly different raypaths when the local soil is considered instead of the bedrock.

Subterrains have been found in almost all the nations of antiquity; but philosophers have put themselves to little trouble to discover the motives for making these excavations, which were much varied in their forms.

At the latter place you will see human habitations scooped in the rock, and families living in subterrains — what is the word ? — caverns.

Like the subterrain of mount Olivet, it resembled the mouth of an oven or a well ; and its diameter was at the most four cubits.

The land under Rabbit seems to move, with the addition of yet another citizen to the subterrain of the dead.

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• subterrains
• more subterrain
• most subterrain

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