Citations:geofugal

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English citations of geofugal

Adjective: "moving away from the ground"

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  • 1968 — J. J. Hermes, "The Papuan Geosyncline and the Concept of Geosynclines", published in Geologie en Mijnbouw, Volume 47, page 95
    [] orogeny starts in the eugeanticlinal ridge, the most "internal", the most oceanwards or "geofugal" elements []
  • 1993 — Ewald Lang, "The meaning of German projective propositions: A two-level approach", published in The Semantics of Prepositions: From Mental Processing to Natural Language Processing, page 251
    Man's upright posture assigns the Vertical a natural foot on the earth's surface (or on a parallel plane that serves as ground level) and a fixed direction which is determined as geofugal by the top-bottom asymmetry of the human body.
  • 2014 — Adolf Seilacher, Alan D. Gishlick, Morphodynamics, page 346
    The “staghorns” of the Jurassic Filograna socialis formed by the upright (geofugal) growth of all individuals.

Adjective: "moving away from the Earth"

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  • 1978 — Jaromír Hrbek, Radiational Theory of Gravitation and Structure of Matter: Gravitation as an Inexhaustible Source of Energy, page 212
    Why is there not a single blueshift when, logically, during the expansive process of the Universe there might be galaxies moving toward us? Why is the expansion of the universe only a geofugal process?