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GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("geological phenomenon" is a kind of...):
natural phenomenon (all phenomena that are not artificial)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geological phenomenon"):
earthquake; quake; seism; temblor (shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity)
endogeny (a geological phenomenon below the surface of the earth)
alluvial cone; alluvial fan (a fan-shaped deposit where a fast flowing stream flattens out)
cataclysm; catastrophe (a sudden violent change in the earth's surface)
continental drift (the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics))
alluviation; deposit; sedimentation (the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating)
alluvion; deluge; flood; inundation (the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land)
frost heave; frost heaving (upthrust of ground or pavement caused by the freezing of moist soil)
transgression (the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata)
volcanism (the phenomena associated with volcanic activity)
