subaqueous

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Sebald’s quiet, bashful, mysteriously subaqueous prose brings alive the paradoxical combination of drift and paralysis that has afflicted these lives.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

Ashley, G. M. Classification of large-scale subaqueous bedforms: a new look at an old problem-SEPM bedforms and bedding structures.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

In this dark subaqueous space the water is lit by horizontal shafts of light that stir the pattern on the coffered concrete ceiling.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012

The trees beside a pond in “The Park of Schloss Kammer” from 1910 aren’t so much trees as controlled explosions of pointillist color, seething molecular clouds set on a plane of subaqueous light.

From New York Times • May 24, 2012

Grouping of strata in deltas.—The changes which have taken place in deltas, even within the times of history, may suggest many important considerations in regard to the manner in which subaqueous sediment is distributed.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir