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backdeep
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Noun
backdeep (plural backdeeps)
- A deeply subsiding, epieugeosynclinal basin or trough (epieugeosyncline) with no or limited volcanism (associated with narrow uplifts over a deformed, intruded eugeosyncline, from which it derives its sediments); a postorogenic geosynclinal basin.
- Coordinate term: foredeep
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