ADJECTIVE
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of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth
endogenic rocks are not clastic - derived or originating internally
How To Use endogenic In A Sentence
- The distinction between the cycling processes at, or near, the Earth's surface and those in the Earth's deeper interior found its way into the scientific terminology, which distinguishes between exogenic and endogenic cycles.
- To use Gergen’s 1985 dichotomy, with its external and internal referents, the focus is exogenic as opposed to endogenic, which is subjective or phenomenological. Handbook of Stress
- endogenic rocks are not clastic