superincumbent
Example Sentences
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The superincumbent mass of earth would crush the strongest metal.
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri
These granitic masses have upheaved the superincumbent beds of stratified rocks, partly melting them.
From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
A considerable growth of trees had sprung from the soil collected above them, the roots of some having penetrated completely through the superincumbent shells to the earth beneath.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
Elsewhere he accounts for the diminished pressure on the top of a mountain by the diminished weight of the superincumbent column of air.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William
It was cold when upheaved, tearing apart the superincumbent stratified sedimentary rocks, which disappeared from the summits, and on all sides about these upheavals were twisted, contorted, thrown back, and fissured.
From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
