basement complex: Meaning and Definition of

base'ment com"plex

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— Geol. Geol.
  1. the undifferentiated assemblage of rock underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
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