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geology /dʒɪˈɒlədʒi /noun [mass noun]1The science which deals with the physical structure and substance of the earth, their history, and the processes which act on them.Physical sciences, particularly earth sciences such as geology and hydrology, are popular subjects for study and research in Oman's university....- The country has produced important work in biology, medicine, geology, mathematics, physics, genetics, psychology, and anthropology.
- John, who left school at 16, learned in early March that he would receive his BSc degree in geology and earth sciences just a month before 25-year-old Alyson's own graduation.
1.1The geological features of a district: the geology of the Outer Hebrides...- I have tried to cover the basic geology and mineralogy of the district and hit a few of the district's highlights.
- Some of this stems from a poor understanding of wetland geology and what wetland landforms are.
- The details of regional geology together with extensional folds in the Alasehir graben are enough to refute a short lived contractional tectonics in late Miocene to Pliocene in western Turkey.
1.2The geological features of a planetary body: an article on the Moon’s geology...- The seven science instruments on the piano-sized probe would shed light on the bodies' surface properties, geology, interior makeup and atmospheres.
- Paper-based fieldwork methods have made fundamental contributions to our current state of knowledge of the Earth's surface and subsurface geology.
- These use remote sensing and instruments that can scratch away surfaces to analyse the geology of the Red Planet.
Derivatives geologize /dʒɪˈɒlədʒʌɪz / (also geologise) verb ...- It was the only day on Scott's final arduous march homewards from the pole that they were to devote to ‘geologizing.’
- The problem of doing on-the-spot lunar geologising in an efficient way awaited the electric Rover.
- It's great to finally be working back in Appalachia after 25 years of geologizing in so many other parts of the world.
Origin Late 18th century: from modern Latin geologia, from Greek gē 'earth' + -logia (see -logy). |