submergence

Neither tree nor bush grew upon it; their absence indicating that it was subject to annual submergence in the season of rain.

The spirit sank to submergence in the body, I remember combating motion like a drugged person.

Submergence, deposition of Cambrian formations; slight oscillations during their deposition; reduction of land to baselevel.

Perhaps it were better stated that submergence was complete in the basins in which Weverton sandstone now appears.

An overlap proves that a gradual submergence of the land was going on at the time the strata were being accumulated.