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GEOLOGICAL

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 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Of or relating to or based on geology

Example:

geologic forces

Synonyms:

geologic; geological

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Derivation:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

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 Context examples: 

Four times as long as the Grand Canyon, and twice as deep in places, these faults and canyons indicate a titanic geological upheaval in Charon’s past.

(Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History, NASA)

To determine the surface locations of the geysers, researchers employed the same process of triangulation used historically to survey geological features on Earth, such as mountains.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

But due to Earth's active crust, our planet holds little direct geological evidence preserved from the time when life began.

(Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life, NASA)

Before Curiosity began further investigating the high-silica area, it was busy scrutinizing the geological contact zone near Marias Pass, where a pale mudstone meets darker sandstone.

(Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock, NASA)

“This is like geological detective work,” said Dr Euan Mutch from Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences, and the paper’s first author.

(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)

The uneven distribution of craters indicates that the crust is not uniform, and that Ceres has gone through a complex geological evolution.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)

NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter's moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discolored by exposure to radiation.

(NASA Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt, NASA)

Theory that attributed most geological features of the earth to the great flood described in the Bible.

(Diluvian Theory, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Basin formed by the downward movement of the earth's crust at a geological fault.

(Fault depression, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Scientists modelled the habitable area for each group of birds and found that their estimated habitable ranges in the past were very different from their geographic distributions today, in all cases shifting towards the equator over geological time.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)