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Home Dictionary Name: geologizeGeologize
To study geology or make geological investigations in the field to discourse as a geologist...
Geologic
Of or pertaining to geology or the science of the earth...
Geologically
In a geological manner...
Micro geological
Of or pertaining to micro geology...
Micro geology
The part of geology relating to structure and organisms which require to be studied with a microscope...
plate tectonics
A geological theory which holds that the crust of the earth the lithosphere is divided into a small number of large separate plates which float and move slowly around on the more plastic asthenosphere breaking apart and moving away from each other at points where magma upwells from below and driven by such upwellings and other currents on the athenosphere sliding past each other colliding with each other and in some cases being submerged subducted one below the other This theory is now widely accepted and explains many geological phenomena such as the clustered locations of earthquakes mountain building volcanism and the similarities observed between the geology of continents such as South America and Africa which are now far apart but according to the theory were once joined together The motions of such tectonic plates are very slow typically only several centimeters per year but over tens and hundreds of millions of years cause very large changes in the relative positions of the cont...
Cenozoic
Belonging to the most recent division of geological time including the tertiary or Age of mammals and the Quaternary or Age of man Written also caelignozoic cainozoic kainozoic See Geology...
Cretaceous Tertiary boundary
a thin layer of geologic deposits of varying thickness in different parts of the world found between the geological strata identified as Cretaceous and the strata above identified as Tertiary also the time point or period marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods...
Paleozoic
Of or pertaining to or designating the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed including the Silurian Devonian and Carboniferous ages and also to the life or rocks of those ages See Chart of Geology...
Portage group
A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology See Chart of Geology...
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