subaqueous

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Ashley, G. M. Classification of large-scale subaqueous bedforms: a new look at an old problem-SEPM bedforms and bedding structures.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

But how, exactly, does something like subaqueous rock-toting translate to the basketball court?

From The New Yorker • May 15, 2015

In this dark subaqueous space the water is lit by horizontal shafts of light that stir the pattern on the coffered concrete ceiling.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012

The trees beside a pond in “The Park of Schloss Kammer” from 1910 aren’t so much trees as controlled explosions of pointillist color, seething molecular clouds set on a plane of subaqueous light.

From New York Times • May 24, 2012

I shall now proceed to inquire in what manner the mortal remains of man and the works of his hands may be permanently preserved in subaqueous strata.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir