We must not think, however, that all earth containing this ferment is capable of poisoning the superjacent atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference

Other occurrences will vary the relations of the artery in regard to superjacent structures, though the actual depth of the vessel from surface may be the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

These investigations demonstrated that it was possible to follow out step by step in superjacent strata the actual evolution of fossil species and to establish the actual "phyletic series.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The EEZ gives coastal states "sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the waters superjacent to" (above) "the seabed and of the seabed and its subsoil ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy profile of South China Sea] Reference

Among the conditions favorable to the multiplication of the malarial ferment contained in the soil, and to its dispersion through the superjacent atmosphere, there are three which are absolutely essential, and the concurrence of which is indispensable for the production of bad air (malaria).    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference

Stagnation of food results in superjacent dilatation and esophagitis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference

Endobronchial neoplasms may cause a subjacent bronchiectasis, and superjacent stenosis; the latter may require dilatation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference

It is not uncommon to find a stricture of the bronchus superjacent to a foreign body that has been in situ for a period of months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference

But this can only account in part for the absence of fossils, because the superjacent beds, lithologically identical with those nearer the ancient shore, are equally or almost as barren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

Organs which easily expand laterally by encroachment upon their neighbors, which is a common effect of local excitement, must be slow to make any impression upon the superjacent bone of the cranium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12] Reference

I do not deepening all superjacent best home insurance of enthrallingly, how emphatically i newspapering been unguiculated in a flavonoid of thermometric and cryptic carnivora were this voidance was encrusted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

It says that neither party shall claim or exercise sovereign rights or jurisdiction over the superjacent waters, seabed and subsoil of the maritime and submarine areas appertaining to the other contracting party.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference

Even this the second difficulty, however, admits of being fully met, when we remember that in very many cases it has been proved, quite apart from the theory of descent, that superjacent formations have been separated from one another by wide intervals of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

The sun heats the surface-moisture, increasing the evolution of vapor, at the same time imparting a higher temperature to the superjacent air, by which its solvent power is enhanced, from which it results that as the temperature of a month or season increases so also will the amount of vapor or humidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, For the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared under the Authority of the City Council by Frederick A. Ford] Reference

(a) sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the waters superjacent to the seabed and of the seabed and its subsoil, and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water, currents and winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [EagleSpeak] Reference

(e.g., the US has claimed a 12-nautical mile contiguous zone in addition to its 12-nautical mile territorial sea) exclusive economic zone (EEZ) - the UNCLOS (Part V) defines the EEZ as a zone beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea in which a coastal state has: sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the waters superjacent to the seabed and of the seabed and its subsoil, and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water, currents, and winds; jurisdiction with regard to the establishment and use of artificial islands, installations, and structures; marine scientific research; the protection and preservation of the marine environment; the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone shall not exceed 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

A zone beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea in which a coastal state has: sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the waters superjacent to the seabed and of the seabed and its subsoil, and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water, currents, and winds; jurisdiction with regard to the establishment and use of artificial islands, installations, and structures; marine scientific research; the protection and preservation of the marine environment; the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone shall not exceed 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. continental shelf - the UNCLOS (Article 76) defines the continental shelf of a coastal state as comprising the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territori.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference