(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.
(n.) A treatise on the science.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(2) The US Geological Survey estimated the waters in the Arctic contain about 90bn barrels of recoverable oil.
(3) The US Geological Survey said it was the biggest earthquake to hit Japan since officials began keeping records in the late 1800s and one of the biggest recorded in the world.
(4) "Autumn colours are very patchy and depend on regional variation in climate and differences in geology.
(5) A tentative analysis of the data with regard to the geological situation is presented.
(6) In December the US Geological Survey also warned that sea-level rise could be even worse than feared, as much as 1.5 metres by the end of this century, partly due to increased melting of the volume of water stored in glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland.
(7) The possible association between the geological nature of the soil, as related to radioactivity, and lung cancer occurrence has been explored in an Italian province.
(8) The authors relate the tentative measurement data on radon-222 concentrations in different buildings situated in the Ukrainian bedrock geological region.
(9) Europe is geologically resource poor [so] there is a lot of scope to try to move towards an economic development [model] that would be decoupled from the consumption of resources and move more towards the reuse of the resources we already have”, he says.
(10) A total of 435 United States Geological Survey and United States Forest Service workers in Alaska were studied for serologic evidence of past infections with four arboviruses known or suspected to be human pathogens.
(11) This is a big deal.” geology graphic He said that the scale and rate of change on measures such as CO2 and methane concentrations in the atmosphere were much larger and faster than the changes that defined the start of the holocene.
(12) The determination of platinum in geological samples by this method has been compared with an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometric method.
(13) There are 4,000 SSSIs, described by government officials as the “best of our wildlife, geological and physiographical heritage” in England.
(14) ID7720613 Restaurante da Praia, Praia da Arrifana, Algarve Stewed octopus with sweet potato is the speciality at this restaurant, which sits alone at the bottom of the steep access road that winds down to one of Portugal’s most beautiful and geologically interesting beaches.
(15) The northerly region has become a new frontier for exploration since global warming caused ice to melt, oil escalated in value to its current $114 a barrel and the US Geological Survey concluded that almost a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves may lie in the Arctic.
(16) The National Geological Survey recorded a seismic event of 2.1 magnitude.
(17) When I ask him how his background in geology is being used here, he tells me of his fieldwork at the Grand Canyon.
(18) Prof Hugh Sinclair, a specialist in surface geology and one of 59 Productions’ advisers, said he felt frustrated that there was no statue to Hutton anywhere in Edinburgh, despite the huge significance of his work.
(19) These revisions suggest sea-level rises could easily top a metre by 2100 - a figure that is backed by the US Geological Survey, which this year warned that they could reach as much as 1.5 metres.
(20) Many of the contemporary correlations between geological factors and human behavior are also apparent within historical data.
Humankind
Definition:
(n.) Mankind.
Example Sentences:
(1) The terrorists know that if Iraq and Afghanistan survive their assault, come through their travails, seize the opportunity the future offers, then those countries will stand not just as nations liberated from oppression, but as a lesson to humankind everywhere and a profound antidote to the poison of religious extremism.
(2) Calmet said the end of polio will be a “landmark for humankind” because it has created a public health model for vaccination even in the most difficult and challenging places.
(3) I accept the principle that the EU should represent our joint interests in creating treaties for the betterment of humankind.
(4) "At the start, there was a tendency to say the project would solve all of humankind's evils.
(5) Sadly for those who need help now, it is going to take a long time, but happily for humankind, the future looks unusually hopeful.
(6) Humankind fights back with equally giant – 2,000-feet-tall – fighting robots controlled from within by two-person teams functioning through heightened degrees of empathy.
(7) The War Against Terror is another moment in this continuing saga of our species toward an unpredictable somewhere between All against All and One World,” writes Scott Atran, attempting to place terrorism in the context of the evolution of human identities: While economic globalisation has steamrolled or left aside large chunks of humankind, political globalisation actively engages people of all societies and walks of life – even the global economy’s driftwood: refugees, migrants, marginals, and those most frustrated in their aspirations.
(8) Blaming strict gender segregation, the author points out that since desire is natural to humankind, its suppression is bound to make it resurface in a different guise: "For example, monks and those who renounce worldly pleasures quite often tend to be fat, with big bellies.
(9) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(10) Since the earliest movement of Homo erectus out of Africa across Eurasia, humankind has had reason and the means to travel from one place to another.
(11) The US, the most armed nation in the history of humankind, the world’s hyperpower, which spends more on weapons than the 10 next highest-spending nations combined , that country – along with five European allies and partners from the Gulf states – is pounding Isis from the air and yet making only marginal progress.
(12) or "lingerie-dependence" really does signify a state of accelerated evolutionary development never before witnessed in the history of humankind.
(13) These power-damaged people have been granted the chance to fulfil one of humankind's abiding fantasies: to vaporise their enemies, as if with a curse or a prayer, effortlessly and from a safe distance.
(14) A Japanese group has just announced that it will sequence the entire genome of humankind's nearest relative, the chimpanzee - in the hope of shedding light on the origins of intelligence, such as language, logic and thinking, which only human beings possess.
(15) It follows that alteration in assembly, disassembly, or interaction among the various cytoskeletal components may permit some insight into the causes and origins of a variety of neurological alterations affecting humankind.
(16) Photograph: EPA Rael – once known as Claude Vorilhon, a French-born amateur sports racer and journalist – changed his name in 1973 after what he says was an encounter with extraterrestrials who declared that he had been chosen as their emissary to deliver a message of joy to humankind.
(17) This sense of connectedness gives rise to deep feelings of love, awe, humility and reverence that are truly spiritual and feed the inner being, but followed by shame at humankind’s heedless arrogance and shortsightedness.
(18) At surface level it is obvious that high technology and humanity are involved in intensive care, since many sophisticated biomedical techniques and machines are used, and all varieties of humankind may pass through intensive care units (ICUs).
(19) In fairness to Ms Williams, as we picture her hovering over our deathbeds with a retinue of homophobic cherubim, she does not conceal, as an evangelical activist, that her zeal has its origins somewhere far beyond the reach of reason and humankindness.
(20) He who promised that humankind would look back and remember this moment “when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”.