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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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

Geognostical :: Geognostical (a.) Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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.

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