Citations:sublacune

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English citations of sublacune

Adjective: "located or occurring under the surface of a lake"

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  • 1849Richard Henry Bonnycastle, Canada and the Canadians, Henry Colburn (1849), Chapter IX:
    One of the most curious things on the shallow parts of Huron is to sail or row over the submarine or sublacune mountains, and to feel giddy from fancy, for it is like being in a balloon, so pure and tintless is the water.
  • 1946Engineering, Volume 162, page 313:
    The recording of submarine and sublacune topography and of the variations in the physical properties of the sea — what might be termed the oceanic climate — was for long a matter of casual and superficial observation, []
  • 1961 — Edward Gick Richardson, Sound: A Physical Text-Book, Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd (1961), page 328:
    These preliminary experiments indicate that echo-sounding equipment may be of considerable use in the study of sublacune geology.