(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.
Theology
Definition:
(n.) The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life."
Example Sentences:
(1) It is essential, therefore, to submit one's loyalties and value judgments to constant scrutiny and questioning and to those theological criteria that make abortion also (though not only) a theological question, a task not without its risks.
(2) The Mormon religion is one of many conservative faith groups upholding theological opposition to same-sex relationships amid widespread social acceptance and the US supreme court’s 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage.
(3) Literature from theology, philosophy, psychology and nursing was reviewed for contextual usage of the word 'hope'.
(4) DNA sequence analysis of the cDNA clone pACC1 revealed that the coding region of the ACC synthase mRNA spans 493 amino acids corresponding to a 55,779-Da polypeptide; and expression of the coding sequence (pACC1) in Escherichia coli as a COOH terminus hybrid of beta-galactosidase or as a nonhybrid polypeptide catalyzed the conversion of S-adenosylmethionine to ACC (Sato, T., and Theologis, A.
(5) The paper examines two aspects of coitus interruptus as a sexual practice: (1) how, in the age of fertility decline in Western Europe, its meaning was reinterpreted from an earlier theological view that condemned it as licentious to a nineteenth century view that emphasized restraint, and (2) how it was actually experienced by a socially stratified birth-controlling population in rural Sicily, ca 1900-1970.
(6) It is not a theological treatise.” Furthermore, the writer meant that as praise.
(7) What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.
(8) "The text in itself is probably not a landmark work of Islamic jurisprudence, but it is important because it adds to … a corpus of treatises by former militants challenging al-Qaida on theological grounds," Thomas Hegghammer of Harvard University said on the Jihadica website.
(9) In 1949, he graduated from the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary.
(10) Edinburgh students called on outside supporters to stage snowball fights in solidarity, while Oxford's Facebook page features support from sympathisers, but also anger from English and theology students unable to get hold of books and data for this week's essays.
(11) During his time at Westcott House theological college in Cambridge, he turned away from the theology of the faculty and from the more catholic Anglicanism of Sir Edwin Hoskyns and later Michael Ramsey.
(12) In developing the relationship of these two dimensions of Catholic moral argument the article highlights how the appeal to natural law categories differs in social ethics and bioethics and how the two topics are received differently in the theological community.
(13) As a consequence, he's the go-to guy for a scathing quote on dissembling theologies and their gullible believers.
(14) Angry US Republicans tell Pope Francis to ‘stick with his job and we’ll stick with ours’ Read more Santorum told a Philadelphia radio station earlier this month: “The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we’re good at, which is theology and morality.” Three other Catholic Republican hopefuls: Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio, have yet to speak out on the encyclical.
(15) In 1966 she was sent as a missionary to Brazil at a time when the progressive practices of liberation theology were sweeping through the Catholic church in Latin America.
(16) Michael Kelly (@MichaelKellyIC) It used to be a theology qualification was useful to cover the Vatican, now I'm wishing I did chemistry #Conclave March 13, 2013 12.19pm GMT The Vatican spokespeople seem to be getting a bit bogged down in descriptions of the smoke-making process.
(17) However, the caliphate declaration will be seen in political rather than theological terms.
(18) Evaluative instruments were the Community Mental Health Ideology Scale, two scales adapted from the Theological School Inventory, a self-evaluative competence scale, and a role evaluation scale.
(19) Apt, perhaps, for a man who is preparing to study theology part-time alongside a "portfolio" business career he plans to rebuild once he leaves government.
(20) They are not mutually exclusive | Rodney Croome Read more More importantly, the theological underpinnings of the ACL are distinctly fringe.