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Basset :: Basset (n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.

Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character.

Period :: Period (n.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology..

Vulcanic :: Vulcanic (a.) Of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the Vulcanists, or Plutonists..

Uniformism :: Uniformism (n.) The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism..

Diluvialist :: Diluvialist (n.) One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.

Geologize :: Geologize (v. i.) To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist.

Fluvialist :: Fluvialist (n.) One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.

Cataclysmist :: Cataclysmist (n.) One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.

Uniformitarian :: Uniformitarian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes..

Fresh-water :: Fresh-water (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels..

Dyke :: Dyke (n.) See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

Plutonist :: Plutonist (n.) One who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion; a Plutonian. See Plutonism.

Archaean :: Archaean (a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.

Catastrophism :: Catastrophism (n.) The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.

Archaean :: Archaean (n.) The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life..

Cenozoic :: Cenozoic (a.) 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 caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology..

Geological :: Geological (a.) Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth..

Paleozoic :: Paleozoic (a.) 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..

Bovey Coal :: Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era..

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