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/dʒˌɪəlˈɒdʒɪk/
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[ US /ˌdʒiəˈɫɑdʒɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌdʒiəˈɫɑdʒɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or based on geology
geological formations
geologic forces
How To Use geologic In A Sentence
- The chief natural phenomena that have driven fragmentation are glacial advances, volcanic activity, geologic faulting, tectonic movement, mass land slumping, serpentinization, major sea level rise and climate oscillation. Habitat fragmentation
- The fact that these rocks were not supplying detritus to the sedimentary basin is consistent with the geological observation that they always appear covered by the younger deposits, with little or no discontinuity until the Devonian.
- These details are important for geodynamical modeling, which may one day predict complex geological processes such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- Topographic and geological maps are the next stop to identify likely areas based on physical features such as sinkholes, known outcrops of cave forming rocks, and known cave locations.
- The geological prospecting team ranged over the desert in search of valuable deposits of oil.
- Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity.
- Eluvium is the geological term for detritus from weathering rock (soil, dust and rock particles are broken down and redeposited by the wind).
- ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
- The granite peaks and sylvan hollows in the Blue Ridge Mountains are the results of geological changes and metamorphosis over perhaps a billion year period of time.
- Background radiation is a feature of our environment on Earth extending back throughout geological time.