superincumbent
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These granitic masses have upheaved the superincumbent beds of stratified rocks, partly melting them.
From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Hydrobarometer, hī-dro-ba-rom′e-ter, n. an instrument for determining the depth of the sea by the pressure of the superincumbent water.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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
The priests—the worshippers, where were they? sleeping beneath the ruins of the crumbling chancel; their high or holy names, which no man remembers, carved deep in the superincumbent marble.
From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt
Notwithstanding the care taken to shore them up, the roofs of the abandoned quarries still give way occasionally under the superincumbent weight.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William
