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High land is not produced simply by uniform upheaval, but by a predominance of elevatory over subsiding movements.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Hence in these cases it would appear, that volcanos burst forth into action and become extinguished on the same spots, accordingly as elevatory or subsiding movements prevail there.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles

Shells thus cast up by gales, would, during an elevatory period, never again be touched by the sea.

From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles

Mention some of the proofs of an elevatory movement.

From Geology by Geikie, James

Occasionally some of the calamite brakes and forests of Sigillariae and Coniferae were exposed in the flood season, or sometimes, perhaps, by slight elevatory movements to the denuding action of the river or the sea.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir