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1. Geology: Geology (from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) 'earth', and λoγία (-logía) 'study of, discourse') is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time ... (Scientific study of the composition, structure, and history of Earth) [100%] 2024-01-12 [Geology]
2. Geology: Etymology: Geology is the science and study of the solid matter of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history and the processes that shape it. It is one of the Earth sciences. [100%] 2023-02-21 [Geology] [Natural Sciences]...
3. Geology: Geology, the science which investigates the physical history of the earth. Its object is to trace the structural progress of our planet from the earliest beginnings of its separate existence, through its various stages of growth, down to the present ... [100%] 2022-09-02
4. Geology: Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, "the earth") and λογος (logos, "word", "reason")) is the science and study of the Earth, its make-up, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. Geologists have helped establish the age of the Earth ... [100%] 2023-11-06 [Geology]
5. Geology: Geology is the scientific study of the earth. It is concerned with the structure and composition of the earth, the physical processes at work on and within the earth, and with earth history, including its formation and subsequent evolution. [100%] 2023-08-29
6. Geology: Generalized Chart of Rocks of the Great Plains Note: Unit names are representative and not complete. View larger Any discussion of the geology of a given physiographic region should distinguish between the history of the present landscape and the older ... (Geography) [100%] 2004-01-01 [North America] [Great Plains]...
7. Geology: Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, "the earth") and λογος (logos, "word," "reason")) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. It is one of the Earth sciences. In order for ... [100%] 2023-02-04
8. Geology: Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, "the earth") and λογος (logos, "word," "reason")) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. It is one of the Earth sciences. In order for ... [100%] 2023-02-04
9. Geology: The science of geology ranges from the study of individual rocks, to the study of the composition of the entire Earth. In between, geologists work to explain why the surface of the land looks the way it does, where valuable ... [100%] 2023-12-02 [Evidence against a recent creation] [Geology]...
10. Geology: Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, "the earth") and λογος (logos, "word," "reason")) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. It is one of the Earth sciences. In order for ... [100%] 2023-02-04
11. Geology: Geology (from grc γῆ (gê) 'earth', and λoγία (-logía) 'study of, discourse') is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern ... (Earth) [100%] 2023-11-05 [Geology]
12. Andean Geology: Andean Geology, antiguamente llamada Revista Geológica de Chile, es una revista científica chilena que publica artículos en el campo de la geología y otras ciencias de la Tierra, principalmente en aquellos temas que son relevantes para América del Sur, Centroamérica ... [70%] 2024-01-22
13. Cape Geology: Cape Geology is a low, gravel-covered point marking the western limit of Botany Bay, in the southern part of Granite Harbour, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the Western Geological Party of the Terra Nova Expedition ... (Geographical feature in Antarctica) [70%] 2023-12-10 [Headlands of Victoria Land] [Scott Coast]...
14. Andean Geology: Andean Geology, antiguamente llamada Revista Geológica de Chile, es una revista científica chilena que publica artículos en el campo de la geología y otras ciencias de la Tierra, principalmente en aquellos temas que son relevantes para América del Sur, Centroamérica ... [70%] 2024-01-10
15. Flood Geology: Flood geology is the study of the Earth's geology from the point of view that the Earth's geology was radically redefined by a global flood in the relatively recent past, as recorded in Genesis, as well as the ... [70%] 2023-02-14 [Young Earth Creationism] [Geology]...
16. Chemical Geology: Chemical Geology is an international peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal is affiliated with the European Association of Geochemistry and it is published by Elsevier., publishing both subscription and open access articles. (International peer-reviewed academic journal) [70%] 2023-12-10 [Elsevier academic journals] [Geochemistry journals]...
17. Geology Today: Geology Today is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Geologists' Association and the Geological Society of London. The editor-in-chief is Peter Doyle (Geological Society of London). [70%] 2024-01-08 [Geology journals] [Wiley (publisher) academic journals]...
18. Geology of Ontario: The geology of Ontario consists of the study of the rock formations in the most populated province of Canada. Ontario has some of the oldest rocks on Earth. (Earth) [57%] 2023-10-28 [Historical geology]
19. Geology of Denmark: The geology of Denmark includes 12 kilometers of unmetamorphosed sediments lying atop the Precambrian Fennoscandian Shield, the Norwegian-Scottish Caledonides and buried North German-Polish Caledonides. The stable Fennoscandian Shield formed from 1.45 billion years ago to 850 million ... (Overview of the geology of Denmark) [57%] 2024-01-05 [Geology of Denmark]
20. Geology of Kuwait: The geology of Kuwait includes extremely thick, oil and gas-bearing sedimentary sequences from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Kuwait is a country in Western Asia, situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf. [57%] 2024-01-01 [Geology of Kuwait]
21. Geology of Ireland: The geology of Ireland consists of the study of the rock formations on the island of Ireland. It includes rocks from every age from Proterozoic to Holocene and a large variety of different rock types is represented. (Study of the rock formations of Ireland) [57%] 2024-01-12 [Geology of Ireland]
22. Geology of Mauritania: The geology of Mauritania is built on more than two billion year old Archean crystalline basement rock in the Reguibat Shield of the West African Craton, a section of ancient and stable continental crust. Mobile belts and the large Taoudeni ... [57%] 2023-10-17 [Geology of Mauritania]
23. Geology of Laos: The geology of Laos includes poorly defined oldest rocks. Marine conditions persisted for much of the Paleozoic and parts of the Mesozoic, followed by periods of uplift and erosion. [57%] 2023-10-25 [Geology of Laos]
24. Geology of Montserrat: The geology of Montserrat formed from the Pliocene into recent times with five major and three parasitic volcanoes. For the most part, the volcanoes only erupted andesite, pyroclastic flows and dome lavas and the Montserrat series is dominantly calc-alkaline. [57%] 2023-01-30 [Geography of Montserrat] [Natural history of Montserrat]...
25. Geology of Lithuania: The geology of Lithuania consists of ancient Proterozoic basement rock overlain by thick sequences of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine sedimentary rocks, with some oil reserves, abundant limestone, dolomite, phosphorite and glauconite. Lithuania is a country in the Baltic region ... [57%] 2024-01-12 [Geology of Lithuania]
26. Geology of Massachusetts: The geology of Massachusetts includes numerous units of volcanic, intrusive igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks formed within the last 1.2 billion years. The oldest formations are gneiss rocks in the Berkshires, which were metamorphosed from older rocks during the ... [57%] 2024-01-11 [Geology of Massachusetts] [Geology of the United States by state]...
27. Geology of Mars: The geology of Mars is the scientific study of the surface, crust, and interior of the planet Mars. It emphasizes the composition, structure, history, and physical processes that shape the planet. (Astronomy) [57%] 2023-03-27 [Geology of Mars] [Mars]...
28. Geology of Cuba: The geology of Cuba differs significantly from that of other Caribbean islands because of ancient 900 million year old Precambrian Proterozoic metamorphic rocks in the Santa Clara province and extensive Jurassic and Cretaceous outcrops. Western and central Cuba are a ... [57%] 2023-10-29 [Geology of Cuba]
29. Geology Terms O: Obsidian Oceanic Volcanoes Octahedral Coordination Oil Field Oil shale Old Age Oolite Opaque Mineral Ophiolite Suite Orbit Ore Ore Mineral Original Horizontality, Principle of Orogenic Belt Orogeny Oscillation Ripple Outcrop Outgassing Outwash Oxidation Oxidized Element. [57%] 2023-02-24 [Geology Terms]
30. Keck Geology Consortium: The Keck Geology Consortium, founded in 1987, is a collection of 17 collaborating colleges and academic departments generally focusing on promoting undergraduate research in the fields of geology and earth sciences. Primarily, the consortium organizes and funds undergraduate field research ... (Organization) [57%] 2022-08-03 [Geology organizations]
31. Supergene (geology): In ore deposit geology, supergene processes or enrichment are those that occur relatively near the surface as opposed to deep hypogene processes. Supergene processes include the predominance of meteoric water circulation (i.e. (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-10 [Economic geology]
32. Danube (geology): Danube or Donau is a timespan in the glacial history of the Alps. Danube is currently regarded to have started approximately 1.8 million years ago, at the start of the Calabrian age of the international geochronology. (Earth) [70%] 2023-11-18 [Pleistocene events]
33. Age (geology): The age is the fundamental chronostratigraphic unit. Being geochronologic units, ages represent a interval of geologic time. (Geology) [70%] 2023-07-21
34. Epoch (geology): In geochronology, an epoch is a subdivision of the geologic timescale that is longer than an age but shorter than a period. The current epoch is the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period. (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-15 [Geochronology] [Geologic time scales]...
35. Platform (geology): In geology, a platform is a continental area covered by relatively flat or gently tilted, mainly sedimentary strata, which overlie a basement of consolidated igneous or metamorphic rocks of an earlier deformation. Platforms, shields and the basement rocks together constitute ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-09-30 [Plate tectonics]
36. Shield (geology): A shield is a large area of exposed Precambrian crystalline igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that form tectonically stable areas. These rocks are older than 570 million years and sometimes date back to around 2 to 3.5 billion ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-11-18 [Plate tectonics]
37. Slaking (geology): Slaking is the process in which earth materials disintegrate and crumble when exposed to moisture. The term can be applied to natural geologic formations, land modified by or for human use, or to the use of earth materials in manufacturing ... (Earth) [70%] 2024-01-03 [Erosion]
38. Crust (geology): In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite. It is usually distinguished from the underlying mantle by its chemical makeup; however, in the case of icy satellites, it may be ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-09-27 [Plate tectonics] [Structure of the Earth]...
39. Dike (geology): In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body. Dikes can be either magmatic or sedimentary in origin. (Earth) [70%] 2023-09-28 [Sedimentary rocks]
40. Stage (geology): The stage is the fundamental chronostratigraphic unit. Being chronostratigraphic units, stages represent the body of rocks formed during a given interval of geologic time. (Geology) [70%] 2023-09-06
41. Roundness (geology): Roundness is the degree of smoothing due to abrasion of sedimentary particles. It is expressed as the ratio of the average radius of curvature of the edges or corners to the radius of curvature of the maximum inscribed sphere. (Earth) [70%] 2023-08-16 [Geomorphology] [Paleogeography]...
42. Cryptic (geology): The Cryptic era is an informal term for the earliest geologic evolution of the Earth and Moon. It is the oldest (informal) era of the Hadean eon, and it is commonly accepted to have begun close to about 4.533 ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-09-27 [Hadean] [Geologic time scales of Earth]...
43. Petroleum geology: Petroleum geology is the study of origin, occurrence, movement, accumulation, and exploration of hydrocarbon fuels. It refers to the specific set of geological disciplines that are applied to the search for hydrocarbons (oil exploration). (Earth) [70%] 2022-10-29 [Economic geology]
44. Dispersion (geology): Dispersion is a process that occurs in soils that are particularly vulnerable to erosion by water. In soil layers where clays are saturated with sodium ions ("sodic soils"), soil can break down very easily into fine particles and wash away. (Earth) [70%] 2023-09-03 [Geochemistry] [Soil physics]...
45. Compression (geology): In geology, the term compression refers to a set of stress directed toward the center of a rock mass. Compressive strength refers to the maximum compressive stress that can be applied to a material before failure occurs. (Geology) [70%] 2024-01-09 [Structural geology] [Solid mechanics]...
46. Médanos (geology): In South America, the word médanos refers to continental dunes whereas dunas refers to dunes of coastal origin. Médanos may be vegetated or unvegetated. (Earth) [70%] 2023-03-02 [Aeolian landforms]
47. Lens (geology): In geology, a lens or lentil is a body of ore or rock that is thick in the middle and thin at the edges, resembling a convex lens in cross-section. To thin out in all directions is to "lens ... (Earth) [70%] 2024-01-12 [Petrology] [Sedimentology]...
48. Dome (geology): A dome is a feature in structural geology consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect each other at their respective apices. Intact, domes are distinct, rounded, spherical-to-ellipsoidal-shaped protrusions on the Earth's surface. (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-03 [Geologic domes] [Rock formations]...
49. Eoarchean geology: Eoarchean geology is the study of the oldest preserved crustal fragments of Earth during the Eoarchean era from 4 to 3.6 billion years ago. Major well-preserved rock units dated Eoarchean are known from three localities, the Isua Greenstone ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-16 [Archean]