geological
77
4.1
- adjective
- /ˌdʒiəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
:
geológico
- You can see how flexible rock really is on geological time scales.
- geological time
- geological history
- geological survey
So the question has always been, what is powering this extreme geological activity on IO?
- So the question has always been, what is powering this extreme geological activity on IO?
- We are living on a planet that is, has mostly liquid like properties over geological time frames.
- They can modify the course of geological events, sort of like Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers.
- You then concentrate that gas, you pipe it usually quite a long way, and then you can store it basically in a geological cavern underground.
- No country in the world has a geological repository that's currently open and accepting nuclear waste.
- It's true I'm dawdling, as if I had time to watch the formation of geological layers, so night already seeps through my brittle bones.
- And they're the only way to to know about that would be to look in the geological record.
- The human catastrophe that Orient's my reflections this afternoon is thus legible in geological time.
- Their caves basically located inside stable geological formations that are expected to remain stable for at least a few millions of years.
- And I think that, you know, you can see a lot of geological things being reflected in the the story about Mars in these books.
- Oh, so I go to the US Geological Survey and I say, hey, how about funding some R&D; on this or, or, or whatever, just have a meeting.
Examples
-
Geological surveys help scientists understand the Earth's past and predict natural disasters.
-
So I did that, worked with the US Geological Survey, and we basically do science.
-
However, it's also a geological object.
-
There have been really interesting geological bits of history.
-
And more importantly, the geological survey says there definitely is.
-
I just took a few geological samples.
-
If we find these, we can bring the geological history of the planets together.
Fiction book (1997) -
Most people do not know that we already have a geological repository.
-
The centers are led by the US Geological Survey and hosted by one or more universities.
Academic text (2012) -
Except right beneath us is the key geological lock that keeps the faults from moving at once.
Synonyms
16
5.0
Relating to the Earth's rocks, layers, and slow natural changes
Compounds
- Specialized
3
4.4
A natural layer of rock or soil that looks different from the layers around it
1
3.5
A natural change on Earth that shapes rocks and land, like erosion or volcanoes
- Specialized
1
6.0
A long time in Earth's history marked by certain rocks and fossils
- Specialized
A layer of rock that you can identify by its minerals or fossils and use to find its age
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Geological comes from the parts geo- meaning 'earth' and -logy meaning 'study', just like in geography and biology. So, geological is about the 'study of the Earth', its rocks, history, and how it changes.