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basement complex

noun

, Geology.
  1. the undifferentiated assemblage of rock basementrock underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.

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Origin of basement complex1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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