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83 relations: Allegheny Mountains, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, American Philosophical Society, Ami Boué, Amphibolite, Appalachian Mountains, Appalachian Plateau, Armin K. Lobeck, Atlantic coastal plain, Atlantic Seaboard fall line, Augusta, Georgia, Bailey Willis, Baryte, Basement (geology), Blue Ridge Mountains, Branch mint, Brasstown Bald, Charles Henry Hitchcock, Coal, Coastal plain, Columbus, Georgia, Dahlonega, Georgia, Diabase, Dinosaur, Fault (geology), Félix de Beaujour, Fossil, Frank Howe Bradley, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Geologic map, Geology, Geomorphology, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Georgia Gold Belt, Gneiss, Granite, Gristmill, Henry Darwin Rogers, Henry Schenck Tanner, Holocene, Igneous rock, Intrusive rock, Jules Marcou, Kaolinite, Late Cretaceous, Limestone, List of agriculture ministries, M. F. Stephenson, Macon, Georgia, Map, ..., Metamorphic rock, Metavolcanic rock, Migmatite, Montgomery, Alabama, North Georgia mountains, Ochre, Ordovician, Orogeny, Paleozoic, Parker Cleaveland, Piedmont (United States), Plate tectonics, Portage, Puffery, Rock (geology), Rocky Mountains, Sandstone, Sawmill, Schist, Sedimentary rock, Shale, Shear (geology), Stone Mountain, Stratum, Subduction, United States Geological Survey, United States Mint, University of Georgia, Watermill, William John McGee, William Maclure, William Phipps Blake, William Smith (geologist). Expand index (33 more) »
Allegheny Mountains
The Allegheny Mountain Range, informally the Alleghenies and also spelled Alleghany and Allegany, is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the eastern United States and Canada and posed a significant barrier to land travel in less technologically advanced eras.
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American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) is a professional association for mining and metallurgy, with over 145,000 members.
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American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 and located in Philadelphia, is an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation that promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
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Ami Boué
Ami Boué (16 March 179421 November 1881) was an geologist of French origin.
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Amphibolite
Amphibolid is a metamorphic rock that contains amphibole, especially the species hornblende and actinolite, as well as plagioclase.
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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains (les Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.
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Appalachian Plateau
The Appalachian Plateau is a series of rugged, high plains located on the western side of the Appalachian Highlands.
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Armin K. Lobeck
Armin Kohl Lobeck (1886-1958) was a noted American Cartographer, Geomorphologist and Landscape Artist.
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Atlantic coastal plain
The Atlantic coastal plain is a physiographic region of low relief along the East Coast of the United States.
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Atlantic Seaboard fall line
The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States.
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Augusta, Georgia
Augusta, officially Augusta–Richmond County, is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Bailey Willis
Bailey Willis (March 31, 1857, in Idle Wild-on-Hudson, New York, United States – February 19, 1949, in Palo Alto, California) was a geological engineer who worked for the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and lectured at two prominent American universities.
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Baryte
Baryte or barite (BaSO4) is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate.
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Basement (geology)
In geology, basement and crystalline basement are the rocks below a sedimentary platform or cover, or more generally any rock below sedimentary rocks or sedimentary basins that are metamorphic or igneous in origin.
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Blue Ridge Mountains
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range.
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Branch mint
A branch mint is a satellite operation of (usually) a national mint.
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Brasstown Bald
Brasstown Bald is the highest point in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Charles Henry Hitchcock
Charles Henry Hitchcock (August 23, 1836 – November 5, 1919) was an American geologist.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Coastal plain
A coastal plain is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast.
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Columbus, Georgia
Columbus is a consolidated city-county in the west central U.S. state of Georgia.
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Dahlonega, Georgia
The city of Dahlonega is the county seat of Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States.
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Diabase
Diabase or dolerite or microgabbro is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.
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Félix de Beaujour
Louis Félix-Auguste-Beaujour, (Louis-Auguste Feris) (28 December 1765 Callas, Var – 1 July 1836, Paris) was a French diplomat, politician, historian, and French ambassador to the United States.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Frank Howe Bradley
Frank Howe Bradley (September 20, 1838 – March 27, 1879) was an American geologist.
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Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences is the founding college of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, United States.
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Geologic map
A geologic map or geological map is a special-purpose map made to show geological features.
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Geology
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Geomorphology
Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek: γῆ, gê, "earth"; μορφή, morphḗ, "form"; and λόγος, lógos, "study") is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features created by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near the Earth's surface.
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Georgia Department of Natural Resources
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is an administrative agency of the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Georgia Gold Belt
The largest quantities of gold found in the eastern United States were found in the Georgia Gold Belt, extending from eastern Alabama to Rabun County, Georgia.
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Gneiss
Gneiss is a common distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks.
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Gristmill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill or flour mill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.
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Henry Darwin Rogers
Prof Henry Darwin Rogers FRS FRSE LLD (1 August 1808 – 26 May 1866) was an American geologist.
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Henry Schenck Tanner
Henry Schenck Tanner (1786–1858), was an American cartographer, born in New York City.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Igneous rock
Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.
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Intrusive rock
Intrusive rock (also called plutonic rock) is formed when magma crystallizes and solidifies underground to form intrusions, for example plutons, batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.
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Jules Marcou
Jules Marcou (April 20, 1824 – April 17, 1898) was a French, Swiss and American geologist.
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Kaolinite
Kaolinite is a clay mineral, part of the group of industrial minerals, with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4.
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Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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List of agriculture ministries
An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture.
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M. F. Stephenson
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Macon, Georgia
Macon, officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county located in the state of Georgia, United States.
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Map
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.
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Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form".
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Metavolcanic rock
In geology, metavolcanic rock is a type of metamorphic rock.
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Migmatite
Migmatite is a rock that is a mixture of metamorphic rock and igneous rock.
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Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County.
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North Georgia mountains
The Georgia Mountains Region or North Georgia mountains or Northeast Georgia is an area that starts in the northeast corner of Georgia, United States, and spreads in a westerly direction.
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Ochre
Ochre (British English) (from Greek: ὤχρα, from ὠχρός, ōkhrós, pale) or ocher (American English) is a natural clay earth pigment which is a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.
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Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
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Orogeny
An orogeny is an event that leads to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) due to the interaction between plate tectonics.
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Parker Cleaveland
Parker Cleaveland (January 1, 1780 – August 15, 1858) was an American geologist and mineralogist, born in Rowley, Massachusetts.
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Piedmont (United States)
The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the eastern United States.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
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Portage
Portage or portaging is the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land, either around an obstacle in a river, or between two bodies of water.
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Puffery
In everyday language, puffery refers to exaggerated or false praise.
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Rock (geology)
Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.
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Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Sawmill
A sawmill or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber.
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Schist
Schist (pronounced) is a medium-grade metamorphic rock with medium to large, flat, sheet-like grains in a preferred orientation (nearby grains are roughly parallel).
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
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Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
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Shear (geology)
sinistral shear sense''', Starlight Pit, Fortnum Gold Mine, Western Australia Shear is the response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress and forms particular textures.
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Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park near Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil, or igneous rock that were formed at the Earth's surface, with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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United States Mint
The United States Mint is the agency that produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce, as well as controlling the movement of bullion.
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University of Georgia
The University of Georgia, also referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American public comprehensive research university.
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Watermill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.
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William John McGee
William John McGee, LL.D. (April 17, 1853 – September 4, 1912) was an American inventor, geologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist, born in Farley, Iowa.
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William Maclure
William Maclure (27 October 1763 – 23 March 1840) was an Americanized Scottish geologist, cartographer and philanthropist.
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William Phipps Blake
William Phipps Blake (June 1, 1826 – May 22, 1910) was an American geologist, mining consultant, and educator.
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William Smith (geologist)
William 'Strata' Smith (23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map.
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References
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