basement complex


nounGeology.
  1. the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock ) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.

Origin of basement complex

1
First recorded in 1895–1900

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