geologically

How To Use geologically In A Sentence

• Geologically young, the Rockies exhibit faulting, glaciation, and volcanism, resulting in rugged, spectacularly scenic terrain.
• Geologically the axes from the New Guinea Highlands comprise thermally metamorphosed basalt, chert and greywacke depending on quarry source.
• Geologically, this ecozone is primarily horizontally layered sedimentary rock; limestone, shale, and sandstone.
• Dutch brick went round the world as ballast in trading ships, confounding its origins as a local, geologically dependent material.
• The well will now be geologically sidetracked, as intended, to test the reservoir up-flank between this vertical bore and existing crestal wells to further investigate the quality of the reservoir and provide essential compositional information of the hydrocarbons at intermediate depths. New Statesman
• On the right of the image, sunlight bathes the anti - Saturn side of this geologically active moon.
• Modern geomorphologists recognize that mountain-building is a geologically recent event.
• Dr. Mantell concludes that the islands of New Zealand were densely peopled at a period geologically recent, though historically remote, by tribes of gigantic brevi-pennate birds allied to the ostrich tribe, all, or almost all, of species and genera now extinct; and that, subsequently to the formation of the most ancient ornithic deposit, the sea-coast has been elevated from fifty to one hundred feet above its original level; hence the terraces of shingle and loam which now skirt the maritime districts. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
• The Main Channel conglomerate is made up of a variety of well-rounded felsite, granophyre, and quartz-feldspar porphyry pebbles, suggesting a geologically diverse source terrane.
• The first is that climate swamps structure and lithology, an admission that few geologically trained or biased geomorphologists would make.