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  1.  [SUB- 1 a.] Situated or occurring under a continent.

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1900.  Sollas in Nature, LXII. 487/1. The sub-continental excess of temperature.

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  2.  [SUB- 19.] Partly continental.

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1897.  A. Heilprin, in Pop. Sci. Monthly, L. 329. The occurrence of what are stated to be subcontinental or terrigenous deposits.

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