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neritic

adj

Etymology

From or Ancient Greek Νηρίτης (Nērítēs, “minor sea god”) or nerite + -ic.

  1. derived from Νηρίτης

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to a marine environment of shallow waters.

    • Accessory benthic foraminiferal events reported by Berggren and Miller (1989) to occur in the late Eocene are the migrations into the bathyal realm from the neritic realm of planulinids and siphoninids.

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