Definition of Geology

Geology

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.

A treatise on the science.

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Geology Quotations

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Henry David Thoreau

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.
Louis Leakey

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
H. P. Blavatsky

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
Octavia Butler

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
Daniel Yergin

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.
Lou Henry Hoover

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Geology Translations

geology in Dutch is geologie, aardkunde
geology in German is Geologie
geology in Norwegian is geologi
geology in Portuguese is geologia

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