So to explain these events it is necessary to examine the entire geological record. |
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We concentrate on phosphorus as the nutrient that is biolimiting on geological time scales and potentially leaves a complete geological record. |
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The historically older concept of epicycles has not found use in the geological literature. |
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Numerous geological series of auriferous and diamantiferous areas would also be worth studying in detail. |
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By the 1950s confusion had arisen over the use of geological terms referring to strata and to time. |
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Effectively, the rock is left exposed in its geological location, but cut free from its surround. |
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It may be on geological fault lines, and there is always a risk of surface rockslides, especially in Peru's rainy season. |
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The geological history of Archaean greenstone belts is controversial and, to date, no tectonic model for their evolution has been agreed upon. |
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His carved plywood canvasses are acutely reminiscent of fossil imprints layered in geological strata. |
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This morning we heard about the geological history of Mars, especially as it was influenced by the presence of water. |
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Chemical, visible, and geological evidence collected by the Spirit and Opportunity rovers tell us that both landing sites were once wet. |
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Even so, they look very unlike many of the geological formations found on Mars, although I am not enough of a geologist to know for certain. |
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This does not mean, however, that negative inversion is less common, or indeed less important as a geological process. |
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The following table shows the three eras and eleven geological periods that comprise the Phanerozoic. |
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Later geological periods show similar patterns of sudden appearance, stasis and persistent chasms of difference between major groups. |
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Because of this, clay becomes progressively less common in older geological periods and is almost never found in Precambrian formations. |
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Evolutionists say these formations represent three different geological periods ranging from 35 to 245 million years. |
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We have additional information on the geological time periods along the top of the image. |
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A key issue in astrobiology is to understand the processes responsible for the geological and geophysical evolution of terrestrial planets. |
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Certain basins acquire complex geological profiles due to brittle, saliferous or clay tectonics. |
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We are currently planning a proper geological survey of as many magnetic mountains as possible. |
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The geological mapping allowed a detailed revision of the regional stratigraphy. |
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The geological fault lines underlying the eruptions stretch to the Italian mainland. |
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Geochemistry involves studying the chemical make-up of rocks, the chemistry of water or any geological material. |
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There is no stratigraphic or other geological evidence here for a break between the two volcanic episodes. |
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To give one example, should geological theories be factual or should they merely connect concepts that derive their meaning from the theory? |
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They form massive structures that contrast with adjacent bedded deposits when found in the geological record. |
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It is noteworthy that this map closely matches the petrographic contours of the geological map. |
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Through compilations of time-integrated geological and seismological information, areas of high earthquake risk can be identified. |
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From geophysical, geological, and seismological information, seismic zoning maps have been made on a variety of scales. |
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The peaks of Mount Kilimanajaro are now naked of snow for the first time in our own 10,000-year long geological period. |
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The muddy bed of the river is littered with boulders, but not ones that have arrived by geological forces. |
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Carbon is cycled through the hydro and geosphere through biological, physical/chemical, geological, and human activity. |
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Pearson spent his first two years conducting geological surveys to locate top-quality wine real estate. |
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This amount of time, so long when measured against our lives, is a geological microsecond. |
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Palaeoseismology is the study of prehistoric earthquakes using geological and geomorphological evidence. |
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He has shown that all types of geological structures, formations, and systems were formed catastrophically. |
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More than half of Dana's published work is on geological subjects, but he was a mineralogist and a zoologist as well as a geologist. |
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In this context, new integrated studies on geological processes occurring on the continental shelf would seem to be a ripe area for development. |
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By the late 1960s the modern theories of continental drift and plate tectonics had become firmly established in geological thought. |
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First I will present evidence that the geological column was laid down rapidly and catastrophically. |
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The moor evolves from geological hazard into a metaphor for dark thoughts and evil deeds. |
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But the effects of contact metamorphism on its engineering geological properties, have been studied only in this work. |
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Similarly, Darwin also describes the formations of rocks and minerals from the catastrophic effects of dynamic geological periods. |
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There is no doubt that the Opportunity Mars rover is relaying a mother lode of geological data. |
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Essentially, this means that over geological timescales, diapirs flow through the sub-surface. |
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Background radiation is a feature of our environment on Earth extending back throughout geological time. |
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He tells her that they're standing on a geological fault, noted for its earthquakes. |
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We do know they were caused by a geological fault under Manchester which appears to have settled now. |
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Students in earth sciences and geological engineering study rocks such as those you see in the rock garden. |
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The natural association with the land is symbolized by diverse pieces of stone referring to the geological makeup of the landscape. |
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These examples of the geological museum in its nascency give hints of aspects that remain important in its modern role. |
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Similar deposits that accumulated during earlier glaciations occur at various levels in the geological column. |
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The geological upheavals that divided rivers and river basins provided opportunities for speciation when fish populations were isolated. |
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The Neptunists and the Vulcanists held clashing theories of geological origins through flood or fire. |
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Directly dated geological boundaries are shown with solid line and grey circle. |
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This working paper reviews the legal issues concerning geological carbon sequestration in the offshore waters surrounding the United Kingdom. |
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Mr Budge said he would overcome the geological problems with so-called retreat mining, a technique successfully pioneered at Selby. |
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Actually the real reason there are gaps in the fossil record is because of geological changes over time. |
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The geological period known as the Cambrian is marked by the rather sudden appearance of all the basic forms of animals now in existence. |
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But she shares with him an affinity for the craggy geological formations of the eastern Washington landscape. |
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The study sites span a range of geographic, climatic, geological and pedological settings. |
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Without geological and hydrogeological parameters for a specific site this can only be evaluated in general terms. |
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An exhibition of geological data and samples organised at the Museum auditorium has turned out to be a big draw for school children in the city. |
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Uplifted in geological time and repeatedly glaciated, it is a large relatively flat landscape pitted with thousands of lake and tarns. |
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By contrast, scientists working from a creation perspective view all significant geological events within a Biblical chronological framework. |
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The presence of this seaway is consistent with geophysical and geological evidence for a suture between the two massifs. |
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We interpret these results in light of Gnetalean palynology and the geological record of western Namibia. |
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The lava from the Undara volcano travelled 164 km to create the longest lava flow from one single vent in modern geological time. |
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Soils are formed by the weathering of parent materials that are deposited or accumulate by geological activity. |
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In addition, there is growing recognition of abiotic organic synthesis in various geological materials. |
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The Sirius Group is a complex sedimentary deposit of different geological age and palaeoenvironments in different parts of Antarctica. |
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Ratios of naturally occurring radioactive minerals to their decay daughters can be used in determining the age of geological materials. |
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Many of these collections were made for mainly geological reasons and have been underexploited by paleobiologists. |
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It happened 252 million years ago, at the boundary of the Permian and Triassic geological ages. |
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All other ages, epochs, and eras are represented by natural evolutionary and geological phenomena. |
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The fossil record shows the development of life-forms that have proceeded from simple to complex over geological time. |
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Concern was expressed that this needed regional geoscience is lacking over most of Canada, while geological survey activity is being curtailed. |
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For all the apparent permanence, within a protracted, geological time-scale, sandstone is in fact quite quick to change. |
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Moreover, holistic method has proved useful in the hard sciences, for example in the geological theory of plate tectonics. |
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Nestling into exposed rock, the house appears deeply rooted in the ground itself, emerging as an extension of the geological strata beneath it. |
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The geopark turns attention to the close connection between geological heritage and human society. |
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He concluded that discontinuity patterns resulted from ecological and geological barriers at high elevations, attributable mostly to the effects of glaciation and volcanism. |
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Oil companies are gearing up to frack oil deposits in the Monterey Shale, a geological formation that lies beneath some of the state's most productive farmland. |
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The area in question was roughly defined in 2010 by the U.S. geological Survey. |
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The flora is largely derived from that of south-eastern Polynesia, but is comparatively depauperate, due to the remoteness and the young geological age of the island. |
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The key to understanding the mechanism lies in the analysis of the geological and hydrological framework of the basin, coupled with the timing of evaporite dissolution. |
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Acoustical ceiling tiles, with a few touches of paint, are turned into topographic maps, the ragged indentations transformed into geological features. |
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Like magma seeping up through geological faults, this emotion can explode in unexpected ways. |
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A number of contrasting geological processes can produce circular structures, ranging from catastrophic gas expulsion to form pockmark craters to meteorite impacts. |
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They teach that the rejection of God's Word did not begin with Darwin's theory of biological evolution or even with Hutton and Lyell's geological uniformitarianism. |
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Back to the cliffs, where the geological verticality is a 300-foot issue, and where in places two false steps would have you plummeting to the rocks. |
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Scale is one of the classification criteria used in my geological model. |
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Extinctions have also occurred in all other periods of geological time. |
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Entrance is signalled by a change of material, where the whole of the lower storey seems to shift to the right as if following some sort of geological heave. |
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Due to the cave's deep, complex stratigraphy, the geological context of associated material culture has been particularly challenging to interpret. |
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Of course I mean more than a small dinky deposit, anyone with some geological training or even studying can figure out probable areas where there might be a deposit. |
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Despite the world's brightest researchers, the latest GPS technology and powerful computer models, scientists cannot reliably forecast the cataclysmic geological events. |
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Geodynamics applies physical theory to dynamic geological phenomena, and is usually characterized by mathematical or numerical modelling and quantitative prediction. |
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Because of their buoyancy, halite beds may deform or rise and drag surrounding rocks, producing salt domes or act as fill or lubrication in geological faults. |
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Rows and rows of monitoring equipment, geological survey samplers, and other technical items Evan couldn't readily identify were the only occupants. |
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To anyone unfamiliar with them, geological maps can look like the work of a child who went crazy with Magic Markers, using every possible hue in seemingly random patterns. |
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The specimens are kept in one main hall, which can be reached by going through an area of large geological, mineralogical, and paleontological items. |
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Do you want to see exhibits about rocks and petrology, fossils, the geological history of Earth, how minerals form, crystallography, or properties and uses of minerals? |
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The desert ends with a steeply shelving cliff against the ocean, where layers of alluvial accretion are exposed like a lesson in geological stratification. |
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Therefore, in terms of geological age determined by radiolarians and the ammonoid, this brachiopod fauna should be assigned to the latest Changhsingian. |
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The study of fossil plants, palaeobotany, it not only of interest in itself, but can be applied to solving a wide range of biological and geological problems. |
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The naysaying marine geologists who love to point out that there is no geological evidence at all for a sunken continent on the Atlantic Ocean floor are absolutely right. |
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Once in orbit around the Moon, AMIE will survey the lunar terrain using visible and near-infrared light, providing clues about its chemical composition and geological history. |
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Many geological expeditions have explored the Antarctic Peninsula and their discoveries have filled out many of the missing gaps in the fossil record of the continent. |
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These state-printed-and-distributed texts were an important medium for educating the backveld in geological theory and hydraulic engineering practice. |
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Leading catastrophists such as them promoted the so-called diluvial theory, which accounted for many geological phenomena by the action of the biblical flood. |
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The popular antipathy on the backveld towards geological and engineering science constituted a serious ideological obstacle to state water boring. |
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Eluvium is the geological term for detritus from weathering rock. |
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Nearly three hundred years later, the rediscovery and elaboration of these principles would make possible modern stratigraphy and geological mapping. |
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The granite peaks and sylvan hollows in the Blue Ridge Mountains are the results of geological changes and metamorphosis over perhaps a billion year period of time. |
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It is definitely one of the premier geological wonders of cislunar space. |
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The crackle varnish of recent years provides a geological quality probably inspired by the Porcelain series of works by a 1990s collaborator, Heather Straka. |
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In the absence of information on site or geological factors affecting emissions from landfill, we examined data for special waste sites as a proxy for potential hazard. |
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We contrast the geological development of the Bainang terrane with that of other terranes in the region and consider this in the broader context of Neotethys evolution. |
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A regional approach to public geoscience will reflect our geology, and will encourage sharing of expertise among geological surveys, universities, and industry. |
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Precambrian metamorphism and migmatization and the wide spectrum of mainly Alpine mica ages provide clear evidence for such a polyphase geological history. |
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The most unsettling aspect of geological deep time was the loneliness of pre-Adamic history, a time span of many millions of years that had gone unwitnessed by human eyes. |
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But because it had not erupted in recorded history, it missed the proverbial geological radar screen. |
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In conclusion, the geological characteristics of the South China Sea cannot be explained by a pull-apart model involving a releasing bend of a sinistral strike-slip fault. |
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Large-scale geological structures including anticlines, synclines, thrusts and faults formed during the Caledonian Orogeny typically trend in a SW-NE direction. |
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Unique geological, glaciological, and meteorological studies continue there from purpose-built bases around the edge of Antarctica or at the South Pole. |
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From further geological and oceanographical investigation, the positions and edges of the oceanic plates and the continents within them can be identified and also mapped. |
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Although many limnologists are freshwater ecologists, physical, chemical, geological, and engineering limnologists all participate in this branch of science. |
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The rising sea level will only be partly offset by geological changes in the crust of the earth, which are pushing up parts of the island's land mass. |
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With its stepped projections and striations of garbage and wood, this baroque construction evoked a geological formation of layered rock and sediment. |
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There are a number of different groundwater systems in Australia that produce dryland salinity and these operate according to local geological and geomorphic conditions. |
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Anne Barry, placed statuesquely on a moving platform, became a living geological formation as video footage of oceans and flowing lava were projected onto her enormous dress. |
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Not only was very little known about the geological features of the earth, but at that time there were no university degrees in geology and no professional geologists. |
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But they believed that much of the geological record was formed quickly and catastrophically, as the early nineteenth-century catastrophists had believed. |
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One writer described it as resembling a geological cataclysm. |
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His descriptions of assaying, smelting procedures, refining, production of glass and other processes in metallurgy and geological chemistry were used for over two centuries. |
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A few were very competent in geology, both as a result of extensive reading and field study of geological formations and fossils in Britain and in Europe. |
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A course offered in the department of geological and earth sciences provides an introduction to astrobiology for upper-level undergraduates, as well as for graduate students. |
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The Hebrides Islands, lying to the west, have a range of geological features, from mountains to machairs. |
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Nu Instruments, based in Wrexham, makes mass spectrometers used for geological studies to establish the origins and the fate of rocks. |
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The TGRA has an unsteady tectonic structure, where geological hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, and mudrock flows frequently occur. |
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The honey-coloured stone is particularly suited to the rigours of the intense Murcian sun and has a rich geological texture and solidity. |
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This process of 'deformation' results in the formation of geological structures such as folds, thrust faults and strike-slip faults. |
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Our recent geological work shows the northwest oriented Venturina and other veins are terminated by a low angle east-west normal fault. |
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Uniformitarians believed geological change occurred quite gradually and could be explained by the same forces operating in the world at present. |
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Focused on the exploration and discovery of uranium and IOCG deposits, the company has family history and geological expertise on its side. |
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Moss says the major crustal faults and continental rifts at Island Copper bear striking similarities in geological composition to Olympic Dam. |
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There is an order of magnitude mismatch in Africa between geological potential and drilling activity. |
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Besides geological samples have biological samples and hydrothermal fluids are sampled from active outlets. |
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The geological, geomorphological, stratigraphical, and palaeogeographical aspects of the North Estonian Klint have been discussed in many works. |
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If confirmed, the analysis would deflate concerns over geological hazards at Yucca Mountain. |
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The field work included well inventory and collection of water samples from bore wells and studies on geological and geomorphological features. |
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Geoscientists and geological info pros face huge challenges in collecting data to provide accurate and timely geological assessments. |
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Several poems make mention of Livingstone and there is even reference to the geological history of Gondwanaland. |
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It means that terrestrial processes during different stages of the Baltic Sea have great geological, pedogenetic, and archaeological importance. |
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Sometimes called the forgotten resource, groundwater occupies the spaces created by geological fractures and soil pores underground. |
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Scientists aren't sure of the exact geological conditions that cause jade to form, but Harlow and his team are digging up answers. |
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New research from NASA suggests that certain geological features on Mars were formed by blocks of dry ice sliding down the sides of sand dunes. |
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Check out geological phenomena such as plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis in an interactive process known as prototyping. |
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Again, set a reasonable price for the old hogleg or goose gun for it to sell during this geological epoch. |
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The European company would estimate the variation in construction time and costs because of geological, geomechanical and hydrological hazards. |
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The map includes all the exposed geological formations from proterozoic to recent in age. |
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A subsidiary of the Iraq Petroleum Company was intensely interested in some promising geological formations near Fahud. |
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Their geological composition includes, among others, sandstone and limestone, and also coal. |
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The coast of the North Sea presents a diversity of geological and geographical features. |
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As a result of this eventful geological history, the island shows a rich variety of landscapes. |
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The herpetofaunas of the two regions reflect the differences in their geological histories. |
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Erosion of the limestone has led to some unusual geological formations, such as the limestone pavements at Malham Cove. |
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The granite which forms the uplands dates from the Carboniferous Period of geological history. |
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In Yorkshire there is a very close relationship between the major topographical areas and the geological period in which they were formed. |
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The chalk cliffs of the Alabaster Coast of Normandy, France, are part of the same geological system as Dover's cliffs. |
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Around 11,700 years ago marked the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch, which includes the Holocene glacial retreat. |
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The effects of this glaciation can be seen in many geological features of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. |
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The Iberian Peninsula contains rocks of every geological period from the Ediacaran to the Recent, and almost every kind of rock is represented. |
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In the 19th century a number of scientists noted puzzling geological and zoological similarities between widely separated areas. |
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This geological region largely includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. |
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Around 1866, William Low and Sir John Hawkshaw promoted ideas, but apart from preliminary geological studies none were implemented. |
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The Paleozoic was a time of dramatic geological, climatic, and evolutionary change. |
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From a geological perspective, Derbyshire's solid geology can be split into two very different halves. |
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However, from the 16th century onwards the mineral and geological wealth of the Peak became increasingly significant. |
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The name of the geological period and system, 'Devonian', comes from Devon, as rocks of that age were first studied and described here. |
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As a result of this eventful geological history, the UK shows a rich variety of landscapes. |
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The cost of geological sequestration is minor relative to the overall running costs. |
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Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research and his geological work had priority. |
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To prepare construction, a short test tunnel was built in 1855 in Kibblesworth, a small town with geological properties similar to London. |
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The region lies near the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic and volcanic activity. |
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The University Museum of Natural History holds the university's zoological, entomological and geological specimens. |
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Based on these estimates he denounced Darwin's geological estimates as imprecise. |
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Another geological definition, the seam outcrop definition, only includes areas where the coal seam is shallow. |
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Slip is defined as the relative movement of geological features present on either side of a fault plane, and is a displacement vector. |
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In geological terms, the dividing line between Lowlands and Highlands is the Highland Boundary Fault. |
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Another early ascent was in 1774 by John Williams, who provided the first account of the mountain's geological structure. |
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Wales has a complex geological history which has left it a largely mountainous country. |
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Guernsey has a geological history stretching further back into the past than most of Europe. |
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There is a broad geological division between the north and south of the Island. |
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Therefore, depending on the geological characteristics of the formation, specific technologies such as hydraulic fracturing are required. |
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No EU country achieves full compliance with the directive, mainly because of the geological nature of its soil and agricultural activity. |
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Related to this is the use of geological imagery to explain the structure of his 1986 orchestral piece Earth Dances. |
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This major geological event separated the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and caused the creation of the Gulf Stream. |
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In order to overcome this rejection, Agassiz embarked on geological fieldwork. |
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Successive glaciations tend to distort and erase the geological evidence, making it difficult to interpret. |
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There appears to be no geological evidence for such eruptions at the right time, but this does not prove they did not happen. |
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The Ordovician geological period was first described by Charles Lapworth in 1879, based on rocks located in the lands of the Ordovices. |
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The geological period Silurian was first described by Roderick Murchison in rocks located in the original lands of the Silures, hence the name. |
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Due to the geological layout of the Rhondda Valley, transport links are fairly restrictive. |
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The colliery lasted until 1973 when it was closed due to geological problems. |
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The majority of geological data comes from research on solid Earth materials. |
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Geologists also use methods to determine the absolute age of rock samples and geological events. |
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This antedates William Smith's geological map of England by six years, although it was constructed using a different classification of rocks. |
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This theory states that slow geological processes have occurred throughout the Earth's history and are still occurring today. |
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A little later, with Sedgwick as his companion, Murchison attacked the difficult problem of the geological structure of the Alps. |
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In early 1827, after spending several weeks in Paris, he visited geological features in the Scottish Highlands with Roderick Murchison. |
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Hitherto the geological collections had been placed in the Woodwardian Museum in Cockerell's Building. |
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Thus was founded the Sedgwick Prize to be given every third year for the best essay on some geological subject. |
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To celebrate the bicentenary of Sedgwick's birth a geological trail was created near Dent, the village where he was born. |
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A gap or missing strata in the geological record of an area is called a stratigraphic hiatus. |
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Through both the Georgian and Victorian eras Tenby was renowned as a health resort and centre for botanical and geological study. |
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The Loch Ryan basin as it is seen today formed as a result of geological and glacial activity. |
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The geological composition of rock and soil dictates the type of shore which is created. |
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Over the course of time, rocks can transform from one type into another, as described by the geological model called the rock cycle. |
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Large gravel deposits are a common geological feature, being formed as a result of the weathering and erosion of rocks. |
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When geological deposits of mud are formed in estuaries the resultant layers are termed bay muds. |
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The discovery can be made from research of mineral maps, academic geological reports or local, state, and national geological reports. |
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The Carboniferous is often treated in North America as two geological periods, the earlier Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian. |
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Tuya Butte was the first such landform analyzed and so its name has entered the geological literature for this kind of volcanic formation. |
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Often a rift will form in an area of the crust that is already weakened by earlier geological activity. |
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The legal definition of a continental shelf differs significantly from the geological definition. |
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Various geological data are rendered as contour maps in structural geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy and economic geology. |
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Supercontinents, largely in evidence earlier in the geological record, are landmasses that comprise more than one craton or continental core. |
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Over geological time, this organic matter, mixed with mud, got buried under heavy layers of sediment. |
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In the Danish language any inlet is called a fjord, but none of the fjords of Denmark may be considered a fjord in the geological sense. |
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A geological deposit in East Anglia marks the old preglacial northward course of the Rhine. |
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The geological causes of this earthquake and the seismic activity in the region continue to be discussed and debated by contemporary scientists. |
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Sea levels can be affected by many factors and are known to have varied greatly over geological time scales. |
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The Quaternary geological record is preserved in greater detail than that for earlier periods. |
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Article 1 of the convention defined the term shelf in terms of exploitability rather than relying upon the geological definition. |
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Detailed geological investigation showed that it was the result of delayed compactional diagenesis of the Chalk Formation reservoir rocks. |
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Natural gas originates by the same geological thermal cracking process that converts kerogen to petroleum. |
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The mineral and geological collections were all destroyed, including a rare collection of local mineral specimens of Normandy. |
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In the geological past of the Earth, however, geological research has shown that much larger events have occurred. |
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The region has a variety of geological hazards which have closely interacted with human activity and land use patterns. |
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However, geological records of sea level changes show that the redistribution of the melted ice water is not the same everywhere in the oceans. |
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Generally, this was placed in the context of a contracting planet Earth due to heat loss in the course of a relatively short geological time. |
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A useful approach to considering Britain's geological structure is to examine the various terranes from which it is composed. |
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Background extinction rates have not remained constant, although changes are measured over geological time, covering millions of years. |
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The genus first appeared in the Miocene geological period about 20 million years ago, originating in what is now central Asia. |
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The major stumbling block in the project was a massive geological intrusion known as Elderslie Rock. |
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Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties, and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive. |
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He is credited with implementing mechanised land transport on the continent and conducting extensive geological and biological research. |
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The geological study of Antarctica has been greatly hindered by nearly all of the continent being permanently covered with a thick layer of ice. |
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It is believed that this process took a short time, by geological standards, lasting between 500,000 and 600,000 years. |
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Both scientific parties and crew took oceanographic and geological samples and had a common tug of war and a football game on an ice floe. |
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Changes that predate magnetic observatories are recorded in archaeological and geological materials. |
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Mafic, basalt sea floors and other geological products of 'normal' plate tectonics were not included in the definition. |
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There are a number of well documented examples of large igneous provinces identified by geological research. |
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Nodule growth is one of the slowest of all known geological phenomena, on the order of a centimeter over several million years. |
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The Scotian Shelf is a geological formation, part of the Continental shelf, located southwest of Nova Scotia, Canada. |
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Less direct geological evidence indicates that CO2 values higher than this were last seen about 20 million years ago. |
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There seemed to be no correlation between geological age and quality of preservation, within that timeframe. |
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This led Cuvier to become an active proponent of the geological school of thought called catastrophism. |
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This coast documents the entire Mesozoic era, from Triassic to Cretaceous and is noted for its geological landforms. |
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Due to geological folding of the Alpine orogeny, the strata in the main section of the Bay are vertical, with younger rocks to the north. |
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Interglacials are a useful tool for geological mapping and also for anthropologists, as they can be used as a dating method for hominid fossils. |
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Interactions between the chalk downs and softer undercliff rocks drive the geological changes affecting Ventnor. |
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The river is connected to the geological period called the Quaternary, in which distinct cooling of the climate took place. |
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The geological history of the earth is divided into ice ages, based on temperature and climate. |
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Europe is also a subcontinent within Eurasia in geological terms, making the whole of Russia a part of the Eurasian continent. |
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The longitude of Rio de Janeiro was to be found and also made geological survey of a circular coral atoll in the Pacific ocean. |
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After the earthquake of 2010, there was no evidence of surface rupture and based on seismological, geological and ground deformation data. |
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It was the biggest and reportedly the most significant geological event in 60 million years. |
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Tasmania has been volcanically inactive in recent geological times but has many jagged peaks resulting from recent glaciation. |
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This was also the beginning of geological prospecting, mining, and local lead production. |
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Baikal's age is estimated at 25 million years, making it the most ancient lake in geological history. |
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The geological formation of the state is greatly varied, with the Michigan Basin being the most major formation. |
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Famous examples of redox conditions affecting geological processes include uranium deposits and Moqui marbles. |
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Thomas Beddoes and John Hailstone were engaged in a geological controversy on the rival merits of the Plutonian and Neptunist hypotheses. |
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This geological feature played a decisive role in the development of coal mining in the Ruhr. |
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Important geological concepts were established as naturalists began studying the rock formations of the Alps in the 18th century. |
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The valley lends its name to the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, a geological development from the Ordovician period. |
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Other geological features on which radial drainage commonly develops are domes and laccoliths. |
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Helvellyn lies within a geological structure which is interpreted as evidence of a volcanic caldera. |
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He created many careful studies of natural forms, based on his detailed botanical, geological and architectural observations. |
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Geoparks are areas with outstanding geological heritage where this is being used to support sustainable development. |
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The term is used to describe a geological division, a travel route, or a location that is an entry into the Aire river valley. |
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The general geological structure of the Peak District is that of a broad dome, whose western margins have been most intensely faulted and folded. |
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It features a number of interesting geological features such as Hunt Pot, and further down, Hull Pot. |
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This area also contains remains of fossils and ancient plants from the Jurassic period that are sometimes exposed through geological erosion. |
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Alexander von Humboldt visited caves near Castleton and Buxton in June 1790 to investigate the region's geological structures. |
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These anomalies are thus of substantial geophysical and geological interest. |
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The study of the geological features' of this district presents many problems of exceeding interest both to the stratigraphist and petrologist. |
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Multiple perspectives collide on a single sheet, with geological cutaways tilting into aerially viewed grids and close-ups of spindly plants. |
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Two main geological units have been identified at Charay, an upper volcaniclastic unit and a lower andesite flow unit. |
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This book describes the geological makeup and history of the Kalahari Desert in Africa. |
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The Kuri region is underlain by the same geological environment as the gold zones on Tinga, including the Far East Gold Zone. |
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Its geological history belongs to Mesozoic era and the main soil type is Lithosol and Rendzina. |
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Lamprophyres are of the same geological formation as Kimberlite and Lamproites. |
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Fundamental geological aspects of the central Bastnaesite Zone offer distinct advantages for development over other rare earth projects. |
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Engineering geological investigations and rock mechanics studies include discontinuity surveying, core drilling, in situ and laboratory testing. |
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Morphological and geological studies on construction project bedload supply Upper Lower Rhine for the years 2014-2019 on the Rhine. |
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