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The principal effect of subterranean movements during the Tertiary Period seems to have consisted in the upheaval of hypogene formations of an age anterior to the Carboniferous.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
Here, therefore, if anywhere, we might expect to find hypogene formations of Eocene date breaking out in the central axis or most disturbed region of the loftiest chain in Europe.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
As illustrative of the above remarks reference may be made to a few terms commonly used in economic geology, such as primary, secondary, syngenetic, epigenetic, supergene, hypogene, protore, etc.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
They who still question this opinion may call the rocks under consideration the stratified hypogene formations or crystalline schists.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
They traverse all kinds of rocks, both hypogene and fossiliferous, and extend downward to indefinite or unknown depths.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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