epicontinental
[ep-i-kon-tn-en-tl]
- found or located in or on a continent: epicontinental minerals; an epicontinental sea.
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Origin of epicontinental
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The known deposits all point to shallow waters of epicontinental seas; no abyssal formations have been recognized.
They were epicontinental seas; that is, they rested upon (Greek, epi) the submerged portion of the continental plateau.
The Elements of GeologyWilliam Harmon Norton
The epicontinental sea was shoaled and narrowed, and muds were washed in from the adjacent lands.
The Elements of GeologyWilliam Harmon Norton
epicontinental
- (esp of a sea) situated on a continental shelf or continent
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