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Definition of Basseting
1. n. The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.
Definition of Basseting
1. Noun. (mining) The upward direction of a vein in a mine. ¹
2. Noun. (mining) The emergence of a stratum at the surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Basseting
1. basset [v] - See also: basset
Literary usage of Basseting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Geological Memoir on a Part of Western Sussex: With Some Observations Upon by Peter John Martin (1828)
"Every water-course intersecting the basseting edges of the strata, is in fact a
notch or crack, enlarged by comminution and diluvian action—the open ..."
2. Ice Or Water: Another Appeal to Induction from the Scholastic Methods of by Henry Hoyle Howorth (1905)
"Every water-course intersecting the basseting edges of the strata is in fact a
notch or crack enlarged by comminution and diluvian action, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1812)
"... of what have been called coal-fields, or mir.eral-tatini, in which limited
tracts, great and most important series of strata are to be seen basseting, ..."
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