| 单词 | subaerialist |
| 释义 | > as lemmassubˈaerialist subˈaerialist n. now rare a person who holds the view that subaerial processes are responsible for certain features of the landscape. ΚΠ 1866 Geol. Mag. 3 63 The subaërialists start with the assumption that the sea tends to plane down the land, and that its newly-elevated bed presents a surface divested of abrupt heights or hollows. 1887 Athenæum 24 Sept. 410/3 In 1865 the battle of the ‘Uniformitarians’ and ‘Cataclysmists’, ‘Sub-aërialists’ and ‘Marinists’, was still raging. 1905 H. H. Howorth Ice or Water I. v. 231 If, as the subaerialists admit, rivers are incapable of maintaining the vertical walls of their channels without a continual removal of the débris, how could rain, frost, or even springs wear back an escarpment. 1951 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 62 843/1 Considering the sea valleys as a group, four difficulties face the thorough-going subaerialist. < as lemmas |
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