submersion

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That bravery included starving off 51 of his 206 pounds while enduring arduous shoots in the steamy, rain-pummeled hills of Taiwan, or submitting to repeated submersions in the frigid sea.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2016

On page 12 Herschel writes of the revelations of Geology pointing to successive submersions and reconstructions of the continents and fresh races of animals and plants.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

The events known in the geological history are only in harmony with the fact that our planet has been subjected to immense submersions.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

If our globe be constituted as we suppose, the land might experience repeated submersions, without involving the necessity of any great departure from established laws.

From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas

The necessity for sudden and even violent co-operations and submersions of individuality in a common purpose, is rapidly crystallising out these ideas into clear proposals.

From War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)