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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..

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

Micro-geological :: Micro-geological (a.) Of or pertaining to micro-geology.

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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