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Geologically

adverb
1.
With respect to geology.






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"Geologically" Quotes from Famous Books



... Andes sank hundreds of feet beneath the ocean level, and again were slowly brought up to their present height. The suns of uncounted ages have risen and set upon these sculptured forms, though geologically recent, casting the same line of shadows century after century. A long succession of brute races roamed over the mountains and plains of South America, and died out ages ere man was created. In those pre-Adamite times, long before the Incas ruled, the mastodon and megatherium, the horse and the ...
— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton

... on the 17th, intending to spend several months there in order to survey and geologically examine the southern end, so we gave him a send-off dinner. He had a very rough trip to the place, having to spend two nights in a cave about six miles from his destination, as a result of getting lost in a ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... America, and beds now in course of deposition off the shores of Ireland and the seaboard of the state of New York would necessarily contain many of the same fossils. Such beds would be both literally and geologically contemporaneous; but the case is different if the distance between the areas where the strata occur be greatly increased. We find, for example, beds containing identical fossils (the Quebec or Skiddaw beds) in Sweden, in the north of England, in Canada, and in ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson

... eating and drinking, swallowing, breathing, seeing and hearing, which were acquisitions of our prehuman ancestry, and for which we had provided ourselves with all the necessary apparatus before we saw light, but which are still, geologically speaking, recent, ...
— Life and Habit • Samuel Butler

... during the Civil War. He made an official report of the country through which the Army of the West passed, accompanied by maps, and his Reconnoissance in New Mexico and California, published by the government in 1848, is the first authentic record of the region, considered topographically and geologically.] ...
— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman



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