subjacent

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The pebbles and larger masses of the conglomerate are quartzite, like that of the subjacent beds, and demonstrate the source of at least some of the material of the younger formation.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.

On removing the skin from the area in question, no kind or degree of irritation supplied to the subjacent tissue has any effect in producing a fit.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

The least desirable positions for orchard planting are narrow valleys, particularly limestone valleys in a mountainous country, traversed by a small brook, or where the surface is spouty from springs or subjacent water.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

Of these, the strata, near and under Paris, lying in a hollow of the subjacent strata, and hence termed the Paris Basin, attracted prominent notice in the first place.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

I see the point of it clear and sharp, but I see also the vast subjacent mass of solid knowledge.”

From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount