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  • adjective of or pertaining to a basin.

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  • adjective of or relating to a basin

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  • adjective of or relating to a basin

Etymologies

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basin +‎ -al

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Examples

  • Soils developed over the lava deposits are mainly lithosols, while regosols are predominant on the Quaternary and pre-Cretaceous basinal deposits.

    Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands 2008

  • Basement rocks are composed mainly of Tertiary lava flows, although there are also Quaternary basinal deposits at the northern end and pre-Cretaceous basinal deposits on the northern coast of Somalia.

    Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands 2008

  • Pre-Cretaceous basinal rocks also occur on the northern margins.

    Eastern Guinean forests 2007

  • (Yoho National Park), Burgess Shale fossils occur along the basinal edge of a paleoescarpment within the "thick" Stephen Formation.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • (Noah's flood-Gilgamesh's flood) Each similar flood is connected to the global basinal extinctions.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • The Takwa mineral occurrence is hosted by a flat-lying Proterozoic sedimentary basinal sequence spatially associated with an angular unconformity with Archean basement rocks.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2009

  • (Noah's flood-Gilgamesh's flood) Each similar flood is connected to the global basinal extinctions.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • So antecedently the box of basinal, the, and the cirrocumulus, i am abuzz to fitzgerald ventrally gelatinousness, sun, and miniature.

    Rational Review 2009

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