EPICONTINENTAL


Meaning of EPICONTINENTAL in English

|epə̇, |epē+ adjective

Etymology: epi- + continental

: found or lying upon a continent or a continental shelf

epicontinental sedimentation

a partly landlocked epicontinental sea

the North sea is epicontinental

— compare epeiric

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