What is "epicontinental"

Usage examples of "epicontinental".

These disappearances are directly tied to the loss of marine influences as the epicontinental seas receded from the region.

This was a totally different place and there could be no question that he had been projected farther back in time than ever before -- back to the day of some great epicontinental sea, back to a time, perhaps, when the atmosphere had far less oxygen than it would have in later eons.

However, their outlines have an unfamiliar aspect, primarily because shallow epicontinental seas still covered some areas, while others, now lying underwater, Were then dry land.