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Adjective: hypogene  'hI-pu,jeen
  1. (geology) formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; - said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene
    "The rocks were described as having a hypogene texture"

Encyclopedia: Hypogene