substratum

• This explains how "cold" glaciers that are frozen to the substratum are able to move, and why many glaciers move faster in the summer than in the winter. —  RealClimate
• Both Tamils and Sinhalese share a common ethnic substratum is the archaeological understanding. —  TamilNet Newswire
• Neurite extension by peripheral and central nervous system neurons in response to substratum-bound fibronectin and laminin. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• The common fishes were significantly more abundant in vegetated areas than on adjacent unvegetated substratum, and total abundances were higher in M. spicatum and R. maritima than in V. americana. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• This, when established, will be a unification of matter such as has through all the ages been sought; it goes further than had been hoped, for the substratum is not an unknown and hypothetical protile, but the familiar electric charge APPENDIX C The hypothesis that all elements have definite quantities of electricity in them, or a definite number of electrons, as suggested on page 335, receives added weight by the testimony of Sir Oliver Lodge in the work already referred to. —  Aether and Gravitation

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