submergence
English edit
Noun edit
submergence (countable and uncountable, plural submergences)
- The act of submerging or the state of being submerged; submersion.
- 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 84:
- The covering up of a complex of apartments on the north-east, and the simultaneous submergence of many floor deposits, mean that Middle Minoan III., like the two preceding periods, was closed by a general catastrophe.