The sedimentary beds contain pebbles of the subjacent granite.
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Subjacent
//sʌbˈdʒeɪsənt//
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French
1 entries- sous-jacent adj (underlying)
Ido
1 entries- subjacanta adj (underlying)
Portuguese
1 entries- subjacente adj (underlying)
Spanish
1 entries- subyacente adj (underlying)
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It was waning towards evening; there was still a faint mist, but it had cleared a little except in the damper tracts of subjacent country and along the river-courses.
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In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]
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Since the times of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, however, there had always been a subjacent stream of travel literature which had queried the civilizing function of Western penetration of such societies.
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