subjacent

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It was not formed by the disintegration of the subjacent rocks, but by aqueous transport.

From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

In width they equal the seven subjacent scales of the peduncle, and are more than half as long as the basal margin of the carina.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

Wherever the subjacent rock is visible along the banks it presents beds of an ashen-grey pumice-stone, which constitutes the chief building material of Manila.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

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

In from twenty-four to forty-eight hours a quantity of the germinating threads had bored through the walls and penetrated amongst the subjacent cells.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)