Hypogene

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Formed or situated below the earth's surface. Used of rocks.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Formed underground, (often by ascending solutions).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Formed or crystallized at depths beneath the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Produced or formed under or below (the earth's surface); netherformed; specifically, in geology, said of rocks which have assumed their present form and structure beneath the surface; Plutonic: a term applied more especially to the granitic rocks: opposed to epigene.
    • Word Usage
    "The underlying sulfide portion of the deposit, known as the hypogene project, is currently in the commissioning phase."
    Antonym
    epigene   
     
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