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Meanings of allochthonous in English

Of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed.

        Usage of allochthonous in English
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        Conclusions: To our knowledge, this case series is the most important cohort of allochthonous diphyllobothriosis described in Europe.
        Pubmed
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        Day in the Life Lab Lemming and Highly Allochthonous decided to answer the question: "What do scientists actually do?".
        Wired
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        The geoblogosphere's strongest link to that community is Chris over at Highly Allochthonous...and he's doing a great job of blogging about geoscience-related topics.
        Wired
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        Let me first say that Highly Allochthonous and Green Gabbro will always be in my aggregator whether they're on Scienceblogs or not...they are fellow geoblogspherons.
        Wired
        Allochthonous through the time