interareas

Noun

interarea (plural interareas)

1. A typically triangular shelf of shell on some brachiopods that serves as a weight-bearing surface to stabilize the valves.
   • The brachiophore or brachial process is a simple, somewhat flat blade located at the notothyrial margin and underlying the notothyrial edge of the interarea.1938, Edward Oscar Ulrich, Gustav Arthur Cooper, Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda, page 73
2. An area where the soil composition differs significantly from the surrounding region.
   • In arranging the data for analyses, all sites that exhibited the behavior of an alkali or saline-alkali soil were grouped together and the panspot designation was used only for the panspot interareas. This was done because the panspot interareas were so widely different in their intake...1968, Technical Bulletin - Issues 1382-1394, page 12

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