subaerial
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“This is another really great piece of evidence that we had some subaerial land on the early Earth.”
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
The two main types of textures created during effusive subaerial eruptions are pahoehoe and aa.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Much of the ash," says Professor Ramsay, "seems to have been subaerial.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
The horizontal plane of the sea now intersects an old land surface roughened by subaerial denudation.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
The destruction of the south wall may have occurred much later through some great eruptive paroxysm, but more probably, as Professor Mercalli suggests, through early marine erosion and subsequent subaerial denudation.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison
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