Sentence examples for geological term from inspiring English sources

Most people think of the word "links" as a synonym for golf course, but it's actually a geological term.

After Paul Crutzen, a Dutch atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate, coined the expression, in 2000, Zalasiewicz said, "People were using 'the Anthropocene' as if it were a real geological term — without inverted commas, without any sense of irony.

One of his main themes was the idea of buildings as urban landscapes formed from interlocking spaces and levels, and he frequently called these platforms "strata," noting that it was a geological term that worked well with concrete, long his favored medium.

Environment Antarctica Melting From Below Early Antarctic explorers used all sorts of colorful words for icebergs — "growlers," "bergy bits" — as well as the geological term "calved" for when a wall of ice would break noisily from the Antarctic coastline and start floating north.

All that junk has a geological term: the technosphere, which is broken down into urban, rural, subterranean, marine, and aerial areas, Seeker reports.

The rock is limestone, giving rise to the geological term "Birnbeck Limestone Formation".

Even the landscape itself is relatively new, in geological terms.

In geological terms, this is the recent past.

Pimp my ride Black gold ReprintsThe day before yesterdayIn geological terms, La Brea's fossils are recent.

Although there are no known active volcanoes, the gigantic Mons Olympus was active until 100,000 years ago - very recent in geological terms.

"In geological terms, we now have the dinosaur lineage a blink of an eye after this extinction," Mr. Brusatte said.