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superjacent

ADJECTIVE
  1. lying immediately above or on something else

How To Use superjacent In A Sentence

  • The EEZ gives coastal states "sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the waters superjacent to" (above) "the seabed and of the seabed and its subsoil ...". Energy profile of South China Sea
  • Higher in the Sheinwoodian Slite Group and in the superjacent Homerian Mulde Formation, morphotype C appears which has a distinctly enlarged first denticle succeeding the fang.
  • The taxonomic diversity is higher than in the underlying Kope Formation and the superjacent upper Arnheim-lower Waynesville interval.
  • Endobronchial neoplasms may cause a subjacent bronchiectasis, and superjacent stenosis; the latter may require dilatation. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • These investigations demonstrated that it was possible to follow out step by step in superjacent strata the actual evolution of fossil species and to establish the actual "phyletic series. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • The Permo-Triassic boundary is put below the bed of illite clay rock (the 34th bed of the Ermen Section, Fig. 1), because ammonoid Lytophiceras sp. is found at the superjacent bed.
  • Stagnation of food results in superjacent dilatation and esophagitis. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • We have, therefore, two conditions present in the derma, the bearing of which on the production of the superjacent epidermis is now to be considered.
  • Even this the second difficulty, however, admits of being fully met, when we remember that in very many cases it has been proved, quite apart from the theory of descent, that superjacent formations have been separated from one another by wide intervals of time. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
  • Among the conditions favorable to the multiplication of the malarial ferment contained in the soil, and to its dispersion through the superjacent atmosphere, there are three which are absolutely essential, and the concurrence of which is indispensable for the production of bad air (malaria). Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
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