basinal

of or relating to a basin

Adjective

  1. of or relating to a basin
    • The process may be relevant to the early stages of formation of the large sediment-hosted deposits from brines, exhalative fluids, or basinal fluids, and to formation of other low-temperature ZnS deposits. - 2000...
    • The transition from freshwater basinal sedimentation to marine deposition was determined by analysis of diatoms from core samples. - 1997 July 4, Heiner Josenhans et al., “Early Humans and Rapidly Changing Holocene Sea...

Origin

From basin + -al.

Derived

extrabasinal interbasinal intrabasinal