Citations:subcontinental

Adjective: "of or pertaining to a subcontinent"

 * 1971 — David Loshak, Pakistan Crisis, McGraw-Hill (1971), ISBN 0070387524, page 44:
 * 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 9780679010111, 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 9780253332912, page 283:
 * In the menagerie of subcontinental art, the horse and elephant are most common.
 * 2004 — Thomas Hylland Eriksen, What is Anthropology?, Pluto Press (2004), ISBN 9780745323206, page 4:
 * 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.
 * 2010 — Top 10 Delhi, Dorling Kindersley (2010), ISBN 9780756661779, page 113:
 * There is more to subcontinental cuisine than the stereotypical Anglo-Indian menus served abroad (and even in Delhi itself).
 * 2011 — Maheen Usmani, "Pakistan's Sexual Harassment Problem", Huffington Post, 14 June 2011:
 * "Eve teasing" is a subcontinental euphemism used for public sexual harassment of women by men, with Eve being a reference to the biblical Eve
 * 2011 — Sadanand Dhume, "Love Letter to Rawalpindi", Wall Street Journal, 28 June 2011:
 * 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 9780471917397, 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 9780891813606, 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 9780444528100, 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 9788173197642, 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 9781405122559, 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 9781862393042, 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 9780123852274, 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.