epeiric
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rɪk adjective
extending inland from a continental margin: an epeiric sea.
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| —adj | |
| geology in, of, or relating to a continent: an epeiric sea | |
| [C20: from Greek ēpeiros continent + | |
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epeiric
used in ref. to seas covering continental shelves, 1917, from Gk. epeiros "mainland."
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Example sentences
These sediments were deposited in and along a broad epeiric sea during several fluctuations in sea level.
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