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sub·a·que·ous

(sŭb-ā′kwē-əs, -ăk′wē-)

adj.

1. Formed or adapted for underwater use or operation; submarine.

2. Found or occurring underwater: subaqueous organisms; subaqueous rocks.

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subaqueous

(sʌbˈeɪkwɪəs; -ˈækwɪ-)

adj

occurring, appearing, formed, or used under water

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sub•a•que•ous

(sʌbˈeɪ kwi əs, -ˈæk wi-)

adj.

1. existing or situated under water.

2. used or performed under water.

[1670–80]

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subaqueous - growing or remaining under water; "viewing subaqueous fauna from a glass-bottomed boat"; "submerged leaves"

subaquatic, submerged, submersed, underwater

biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms

aquatic - operating or living or growing in water; "boats are aquatic vehicles"; "water lilies are aquatic plants"; "fish are aquatic animals"

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As far as I am aware, not one of these animals perished, as was formerly supposed, in the marshes or muddy river-beds of the present land, but their bones have been exposed by the streams intersecting the subaqueous deposit in which they were originally embedded.

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Most mineralisation is hosted by pillow-textured, subaqueous amygdaloidal basalt that is up to 130 m thick.

Ardea Resources Limited - Shallow Gold Resource at Mount Aubrey, NSW

Additionally, the two subaqueous debris fields within the area and adjacent to the terrestrial Ladolam Gold Mine are believed to have originated from the same volcanogenic source that is currently being mined on Lihir.

Odyssey Marine acquires 79.9% equity interest in Bismarck Mining

This subaqueous protrusion extends about one hundred metres beyond what's visible above the water and appears to be tens of metres deep beneath the lake's surface.

Tongue Lashing: The discovery a long 'tongue' of ice beneath a glacial lake in Patagonia could have implications for overall glacial stability

Turbidity currents are subaqueous sediment gravity flows that are generated by landslides, slumps or density-based avalanches (Mutti et al.

A siliciclastic shallow-marine turbidite on the carbonate shelf of the Ordovician Baltoscandian palaeobasin/Terrigeenne madalmere turbidiit Ordoviitsiumi Baltoskandia paleobasseini karbonaatsel selfil

under, or over public subaqueous lands"); see also id.

Sequestering Carbon Dioxide Undersea in the Atlantic: Legal Problems and Solutions

as by studying the external configuration of the existing land and its inhabitants, we may restore in imagination the appearance of the ancient continents which have passed away, so we may obtain from the deposits of ancient seas and lakes an insight into the nature of the subaqueous processes now in operation, and of many forms of organic life, which, though now existing, are veiled from our sight.

"Inhabitants of the Same World": The Colonial History of Geological Time

However, these occurrences could be biogenic, resulting from selective deposition of organic-rich detritus into glacial eroded valleys or overdeepening serving as subaqueous depocentres.

Seafloor pockmarks and gas seepages, northwestern Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada

During the last few years there has been an increasing trend of employing the electrical resistivity method in subaqueous areas for geological and environmental studies [1, 2] and underwater geological mapping [3].

3D Mapping of the Submerged Crowie Barge Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography

The subaqueous distributary channel (Figure 4(e)) mainly contains pebbles and coarse-grained sandstone which have lower salinity values than others and also has primary high porosity and permeability.

Feldspar Dissolution and Its Influence on Reservoirs: A Case Study of the Lower Triassic Baikouquan Formation in the Northwest Margin of the Junggar Basin, China

A non-eutrophying subaqueous growth enhancing formula was injected into the sediment where the seagrass was planted to promote rhizome growth and SAVGROW[R] herbivory protection devices were used to prevent grazing until the seagrass was established.