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The term subaerial, mainly used in geology, describes events or structures located at the Earth's surface, "under the air". This is to be contrasted with submarine events or structures, those located under the sea, or subglacial ones, those located beneath glacial ice such as ice sheets.
A subaerial eruption of a volcano is one that ejects material into the air. Subaerial weathering is weathering by rain, frost, rivers etc. Subaerial materials are materials at the surface of the planet exposed to the air.[citation needed]
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