The failure of Indian politics was yet a further sign of how difficult it would ever be to induce democracy to take root and flourish in Pakistan, where almost everything, from subcontinental mores to geography, to the climate, to national and religious ethos, seemed stacked against it.
1983 — Hong Kong and Macau, Fodor's Travel Guides (1983), →ISBN, page 196:
The latest and largest addition to the list of restaurants serving Hong Kong's considerable Indian community and other enthusiasts of subcontinental cuisine.
1997 — Henry Glassie, Art and Life in Bangladesh, Indiana University Press (1997), →ISBN, page 283:
In the menagerie of subcontinental art, the horse and elephant are most common.
A generation ago, it might have been necessary for an inhabitant in a western city to travel to the Indian subcontinent in order to savour the fragrances and sounds of subcontinental cuisine and music.
Mr. Lieven's eye for detail, command of subcontinental history and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting make this in many ways an excellent primer on Pakistan.
Adjective: "(geology) located or occurring beneath continental crust"
1995 — Brian F. Windley, The Evolving Continents, Wiley (1995), →ISBN, page 51:
When a subcontinental plume hits such a thin spot, the result would be voluminous shallow magmatism.
2003 — Giuseppe Giunta et al., "Geological Constraints for the Geodynamic Evolution of the South Margin of the Caribbean Plate", in The Circum-Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean: Hydrocarbon Habitats, Basin Formation, and Plate Tectonics (eds. Claudio Bartolini, Richard T. Buffer, & Jon F. Blickwede), →ISBN, page 118:
To the south of the transform kinematic linkage, a low-angle, east-dipping, subcontinental subduction zone below the SOAM plate was connected with the development of an accretionary wedge where the oceanic lithosphere was deformed and metamorphosed […]
2007 — W. L. Griffin & S. Y. O' Reilly, "The Earliest Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle", in Earth's Oldest Rocks (eds. Martin J. Van Kranendonk, R. Hugh Smithies, & Vickie C. Bennett), Elsevier (2007), →ISBN, page 1013:
Continental crust on the modern Earth is underlain by a subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM), which consists dominantly of variably depleted ultramafic rocks […]
2007 — Alok K. Gupta, Petrology and Genesis of Igneous Rocks, Narosa Publishing House (2007), →ISBN, page 117:
They seem to have been derived from subcontinental magma source, deep down in the mantle.
2007 — Hugh Rollinson, Early Earth Systems: A Geochemical Approach, Blackwell Publishing (2007), →ISBN, page 87:
They propose that in some cases, therefore, ancient subcontinental mantle can be removed from beneath ancient continental crust by delamination — a process which has previously been postulated but never demonstrated.
2010 — Giovanni B. Piccardo & Luisa Guarnieri, "The Monte Maggiore peridotite (Corsica, France): a case study of mantle evolution in the Ligurian Tethys", in Petrological Evolution of the European Lithospheric Mantle (eds. M. Coltorti, H. Downes, M. Grégoire, & S. Y. O'Reilly), The Geological Society Publishing House (2010), →ISBN, page 42:
From a mantle perspective, the transition from the continent-ward OCT peridotites to the oncean-ward MIO peridotites in the Jurassic Ligurian Tethys did not represent the transition from subcontinental mantle to oceanic mantle […]
2011 — Kent C. Condie, Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Academic Press (2011), →ISBN, page 141:
What we really need to determine the original age of the subcontinental lithosphere are minerals that did not recrystallize during later events, or an isotopic system that was not affected by later events.
