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ˌepicontiˈnental, a. Geol.
[f. epi- + continental a. 1.]
(See quot. 1905.)
1905Chamberlin & Salisbury Geol. I. 11 Those shallow portions of the sea which lie upon the continental shelf, and those portions which extend into the interior of the continent with like shallow-depths, such as the Baltic Sea and the Hudson Bay, may be called epicontinental seas, for they really lie upon the continent, or at least upon the continental platform. 1935Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXVI. 498 An epicontinental embayment of the Pacific. 1959New Biol. XXIX. 8 There is plenty of evidence..that at various times nearly all the continents have been submerged by such ‘epicontinental’ seas. |