Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Formed or situated below the earth's surface. Used of rocks.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Produced or formed under or below (the earth's surface); netherformed; specifically, in geology, said of rocks which have assumed their present form and structure beneath the surface; Plutonic: a term applied more especially to the granitic rocks: opposed to epigene.
Wiktionary
- adj. geology Formed underground, (often by ascending solutions).
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Geol.) Formed or crystallized at depths beneath the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to
epigene .
Examples
“The underlying sulfide portion of the deposit, known as the hypogene project, is currently in the commissioning phase.”
“That this is a hypogene rock, sometimes in contact with granite as well as with trap, is evident at”
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
“That this is a hypogene rock, sometimes in contact with granite as well as with trap, is evident at Oxley's Table Land, and other places.”
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
“The rocks which I have termed endogenous are characteristically distinguished by Lyell, in his 'Principles of Geology', 1833, vol. iii., p. 374, as "nether-formed" or "hypogene rocks.”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
“Lyell, Charles, investigations on the numerical relations of extinct and organic life, 274, 275; nether-formed or hypogene rocks, 249; uniformity of the production of erupted rocks, 257.”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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