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intracrustal

intracrustal adjective: inside or within crusts.

Adjective

intracrustal (not comparable)

  1. inside or within crusts
    • There are two main mechanisms that govern postseismic deformation: (i) viscoelastic relaxation in an intracrustal asthenospheric layer (4 ) and (ii) afterslip in a velocity-strengthening region above the coseismic rupture zone (5 ).1998 November 6, J. C. Savage et al., “Detecting Strain in the Yucca Mountain Area, Nevada”, in Science, volume 282, number 5391, →DOI

Origin of intracrustal

From intra- + crustal.

Questions about intracrustal

What does intracrustal mean?
Intracrustal means inside or within crusts.
What part of speech is intracrustal?
Intracrustal is an adjective.

Words near intracrustal in the dictionary

  1. intracratonic
  2. intracrevicular
  3. intracrinal
  4. intracrine
  5. intracrinology
  6. intracrustal
  7. intracryptal
  8. intracrystal
  9. intracrystalline
  10. intractabilities
  11. intractability

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