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

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

Overlap :: Overlap (n.) An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions..

Geologically :: Geologically (adv.) In a geological manner.

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

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.

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

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

Geology :: Geology (n.) The science which treats: (a) Of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. (b) Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been produced; dynamical geology. See Chart of The Geological Series..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

Araucarian :: Araucarian (a.) Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian..

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..

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

Thin :: Thin (v. i.) To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear..

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