Table of Contents
283 relations: Abyssal plain, Academic Press, Accommodation (geology), Aeolian processes, Alluvial fan, Anhydrite, Animal, Anoxic waters, Aqueous solution, Aragonite, Arenite, Arkose, Arthropod, Asthenosphere, Astronomy, Back-arc basin, Bacteria, Banded iron formation, Baryte, Beach, Bed (geology), Bed load, Bedform, Biochemistry, Bioturbation, Blood vessel, Breccia, Burrow, Calcite, Canal, Carbon, Carbon dioxide, Carbonate, Carbonate mineral, Carbonate rock, Carbonization, Cementation (geology), Chalcedony, Chalk, Chalus Road, Chert, Chloride, Civil engineering, Clastic dike, Clastic rock, Clay, Clay mineral, Coal, Compaction (geology), Competence (geology), ... Expand index (233 more) »
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Abyssal plain
An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between.
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Academic Press
Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941.
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Accommodation (geology)
Accommodation is a fundamental concept in sequence stratigraphy, a subdiscipline of geology.
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Aeolian processes
Aeolian processes, also spelled eolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology and weather and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface of the Earth (or other planets).
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Alluvial fan
An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment.
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Anhydrite
Anhydrite, or anhydrous calcium sulfate, is a mineral with the chemical formula CaSO4.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Anoxic waters
Anoxic waters are areas of sea water, fresh water, or groundwater that are depleted of dissolved oxygen.
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Aqueous solution
An aqueous solution is a solution in which the solvent is water.
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Aragonite
Aragonite is a carbonate mineral and one of the three most common naturally occurring crystal forms of calcium carbonate, the others being calcite and vaterite.
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Arenite
Arenite (from the Latin arena, "sand") is a sedimentary clastic rock with sand grain size between 0.0625 mm (0.00245 in) and 2 mm (0.08 in) and containing less than 15% matrix. Sedimentary rock and Arenite are sedimentary rocks.
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Arkose
Arkose or arkosic sandstone is a detrital sedimentary rock, specifically a type of sandstone containing at least 25% feldspar. Sedimentary rock and arkose are sedimentary rocks.
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Arthropod
Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.
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Asthenosphere
The asthenosphere is the mechanically weak and ductile region of the upper mantle of Earth.
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Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.
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Back-arc basin
A back-arc basin is a type of geologic basin, found at some convergent plate boundaries.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
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Banded iron formation
Banded iron formations (BIFs; also called banded ironstone formations) are distinctive units of sedimentary rock consisting of alternating layers of iron oxides and iron-poor chert. Sedimentary rock and banded iron formation are sedimentary rocks.
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Baryte
Baryte, barite or barytes is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate (BaSO4).
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Beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.
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Bed (geology)
In geology, a bed is a layer of sediment, sedimentary rock, or volcanic rock "bounded above and below by more or less well-defined bedding surfaces".
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Bed load
The term bed load or bedload describes particles in a flowing fluid (usually water) that are transported along the stream bed.
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Bedform
A bedform is a geological feature that develops at the interface of fluid and a moveable bed, the result of bed material being moved by fluid flow.
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Biochemistry
Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.
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Bioturbation
Bioturbation is defined as the reworking of soils and sediments by animals or plants.
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Blood vessel
Blood vessels are the structures of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body.
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Breccia
Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.
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Burrow
An eastern chipmunk at the entrance of its burrow A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to construct a space suitable for habitation or temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion.
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Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
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Canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).
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Carbon
Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Carbonate
A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.
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Carbonate mineral
Carbonate minerals are those minerals containing the carbonate ion,.
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Carbonate rock
Carbonate rocks are a class of sedimentary rocks composed primarily of carbonate minerals. Sedimentary rock and carbonate rock are sedimentary rocks.
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Carbonization
Carbonization or carbonisation is the conversion of organic matters like plants and dead animal remains into carbon through destructive distillation.
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Cementation (geology)
Cementation involves ions carried in groundwater chemically precipitating to form new crystalline material between sedimentary grains. Sedimentary rock and Cementation (geology) are Petrology.
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Chalcedony
Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite.
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Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock.
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Chalus Road
Chalus Road (جاده چالوس), officially known as “Road 59” is one of the most popular and busiest roads in Iran, which begins in Alborz Province and connecting Karaj and Tehran to Chalus on the Caspian Sea coasts.
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Chert
Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2). Sedimentary rock and Chert are sedimentary rocks.
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Chloride
The term chloride refers to a compound or molecule that contains either a chlorine ion, which is a negatively charged chlorine atom, or a non-charged chlorine atom covalently bonded to the rest of the molecule by a single bond.
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Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.
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Clastic dike
A clastic dike is a seam of sedimentary material that fills an open fracture in and cuts across sedimentary rock strata or layering in other rock types. Sedimentary rock and clastic dike are sedimentary rocks.
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Clastic rock
Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
Clay mineral
Clay minerals are hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates (e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4), sometimes with variable amounts of iron, magnesium, alkali metals, alkaline earths, and other cations found on or near some planetary surfaces.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Sedimentary rock and coal are sedimentary rocks.
Compaction (geology)
In sedimentology, compaction is the process by which a sediment progressively loses its porosity due to the effects of pressure from loading. Sedimentary rock and compaction (geology) are sedimentary rocks.
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Competence (geology)
In geology competence refers to the degree of resistance of rocks to deformation or flow.
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Concretion
A concretion is a hard, compact mass formed by the precipitation of mineral cement within the spaces between particles, and is found in sedimentary rock or soil. Sedimentary rock and concretion are Petrology and sedimentary rocks.
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Conglomerate (geology)
Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts. Sedimentary rock and Conglomerate (geology) are sedimentary rocks.
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Connate fluids
In geology and sedimentology, connate fluids are liquids that were trapped in the pores of sedimentary rocks as they were deposited.
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Continental collision
In geology, continental collision is a phenomenon of plate tectonics that occurs at convergent boundaries.
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Continental margin
A continental margin is the outer edge of continental crust abutting oceanic crust under coastal waters.
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Continental shelf
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.
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Convergent boundary
A convergent boundary (also known as a destructive boundary) is an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide.
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Coquina
Coquina is a sedimentary rock that is composed either wholly or almost entirely of the transported, abraded, and mechanically sorted fragments of mollusks, trilobites, brachiopods, or other invertebrates.
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Coral
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.
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Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.
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Cross-bedding
In geology, cross-bedding, also known as cross-stratification, is layering within a stratum and at an angle to the main bedding plane. Sedimentary rock and cross-bedding are sedimentary rocks.
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Curiosity (rover)
Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission.
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Current (hydrology)
In hydrology, a current in a stream or other water body is the flow of water influenced by gravity as the water moves downhill to reduce its potential energy.
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Decomposition
Decomposition or rot is the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide, water, simple sugars and mineral salts.
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Deformation (physics)
In physics and continuum mechanics, deformation is the change in the shape or size of an object.
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Dendrochronology
Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree.
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Density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.
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Denudation
Denudation is the geological process in which moving water, ice, wind, and waves erode the Earth's surface, leading to a reduction in elevation and in relief of landforms and landscapes.
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Deposition (geology)
Deposition is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or landmass.
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Depositional environment
In geology, depositional environment or sedimentary environment describes the combination of physical, chemical, and biological processes associated with the deposition of a particular type of sediment and, therefore, the rock types that will be formed after lithification, if the sediment is preserved in the rock record.
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Desert
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems.
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Detritus
In biology, detritus is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material.
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Detritus (geology)
Detritus (adj. detrital) is particles of rock derived from pre-existing rock through weathering and erosion.
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Diagenesis
Diagenesis is the process that describes physical and chemical changes in sediments first caused by water-rock interactions, microbial activity, and compaction after their deposition.
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Diapir
A diapir is a type of intrusion in which a more mobile and ductilely deformable material is forced into brittle overlying rocks.
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Diatom
A diatom (Neo-Latin diatoma) is any member of a large group comprising several genera of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world.
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Distribution (mathematics)
Distributions, also known as Schwartz distributions or generalized functions, are objects that generalize the classical notion of functions in mathematical analysis.
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Dolomite (mineral)
Dolomite is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite (see Dolomite (rock)). Sedimentary rock and dolomite (mineral) are sedimentary rocks.
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Dolomite (rock)
Dolomite (also known as dolomite rock, dolostone or dolomitic rock) is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2.
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Drinking water
Drinking water or potable water is water that is safe for ingestion, either when drunk directly in liquid form or consumed indirectly through food preparation.
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Dune
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.
Earth science
Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth.
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Earth's crust
Earth's crust is its thick outer shell of rock, referring to less than one percent of the planet's radius and volume.
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Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
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Evaporite
An evaporite is a water-soluble sedimentary mineral deposit that results from concentration and crystallization by evaporation from an aqueous solution. Sedimentary rock and evaporite are sedimentary rocks.
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Facies
In geology, a facies (same pronunciation and spelling in the plural) is a body of rock with distinctive characteristics. Sedimentary rock and facies are Petrology and sedimentary rocks.
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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 movements.
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Feldspar
Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium.
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Fissility (geology)
In geology, fissility is the ability or tendency of a rock to split along flat planes of weakness (“parting surfaces”).
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Flame structure
A flame structure is a type of soft-sediment deformation that forms in unconsolidated sediments.
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Flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Sedimentary rock and flint are sedimentary rocks.
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Flood
A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.
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Floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.
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Flysch
Flysch is a sequence of sedimentary rock layers that progress from deep-water and turbidity flow deposits to shallow-water shales and sandstones. Sedimentary rock and Flysch are sedimentary rocks.
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Fold (geology)
In structural geology, a fold is a stack of originally planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, that are bent or curved ("folded") during permanent deformation.
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Footprint
Footprints are the impressions or images left behind by a person walking or running.
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Foraminifera
Foraminifera (Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of Rhizarian protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "test") of diverse forms and materials.
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Forearc
Forearc is a plate tectonic term referring to a region in a subduction zone between an oceanic trench and the associated volcanic arc.
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Foreland basin
A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.
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Geochemistry
Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans.
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Geologic time scale
The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.
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Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Geomorphology
Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek:,, 'earth';,, 'form'; and,, 'study') is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features generated by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near Earth's surface.
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Goldich dissolution series
The Goldich dissolution series is a method of predicting the relative stability or weathering rate of common igneous minerals on the Earth's surface, with minerals that form at higher temperatures and pressures less stable on the surface than minerals that form at lower temperatures and pressures. Sedimentary rock and Goldich dissolution series are Petrology.
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Graded bedding
In geology, a graded bed is a bed characterized by a systematic change in grain or clast size from bottom to top of the bed.
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Grain size
Grain size (or particle size) is the diameter of individual grains of sediment, or the lithified particles in clastic rocks. Sedimentary rock and grain size are sedimentary rocks.
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Graphite
Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon.
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Gravel
Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.
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Greywacke
Greywacke or graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or sand-size lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix. Sedimentary rock and Greywacke are sedimentary rocks.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Gully
A gully is a landform created by running water, mass movement, or commonly a combination of both eroding sharply into soil or other relatively erodible material, typically on a hillside or in river floodplains or terraces.
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Gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula. Sedimentary rock and Gypsum are sedimentary rocks.
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Halite
Halite, commonly known as rock salt, is a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride (NaCl).
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Hematite
Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is a common iron oxide compound with the formula, Fe2O3 and is widely found in rocks and soils.
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History of Earth
The history of Earth concerns the development of planet Earth from its formation to the present day.
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History of life
The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and extinct organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to the present day.
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House
A house is a single-unit residential building.
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Hypoxia (environmental)
Hypoxia (hypo: "below", oxia: "oxygenated") refers to low oxygen conditions.
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Igneous rock
Igneous rock, or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.
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Illite
Illite, also called hydromica or hydromuscovite, is a group of closely related non-expanding clay minerals.
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Impact event
An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
Iron(II) oxide
Iron(II) oxide or ferrous oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula FeO.
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Iron(III) oxide
Iron(III) oxide or ferric oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Fe2O3.
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Iron-rich sedimentary rocks
Iron-rich sedimentary rocks are sedimentary rocks which contain 15 wt.% or more iron. Sedimentary rock and iron-rich sedimentary rocks are sedimentary rocks.
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Ironstone
Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical replacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron ore compound from which iron (Fe) can be smelted commercially. Sedimentary rock and Ironstone are sedimentary rocks.
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Isostasy
Isostasy (Greek ''ísos'' 'equal', ''stásis'' 'standstill') or isostatic equilibrium is the state of gravitational equilibrium between Earth's crust (or lithosphere) and mantle such that the crust "floats" at an elevation that depends on its thickness and density.
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Kaolinite
Kaolinite (also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition: Al2Si2O5(OH)4.
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Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses.
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Lamination (geology)
In geology, lamination is a small-scale sequence of fine layers (laminae;: lamina) that occurs in sedimentary rocks.
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Law of superposition
The law of superposition is an axiom that forms one of the bases of the sciences of geology, archaeology, and other fields pertaining to geological stratigraphy.
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Leaching (chemistry)
Leaching is the process of a solute becoming detached or extracted from its carrier substance by way of a solvent.
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Lignite
Lignite (derived from Latin lignum meaning 'wood'), often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
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Lithification
Lithification (from the Ancient Greek word lithos meaning 'rock' and the Latin-derived suffix -ific) is the process in which sediments compact under pressure, expel connate fluids, and gradually become solid rock. Sedimentary rock and Lithification are Petrology and sedimentary rocks.
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Lithology
The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples, or with low magnification microscopy. Sedimentary rock and lithology are Petrology.
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Lithosphere
A lithosphere is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite.
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Load cast
Load casts are bulges, lumps, and lobes that can form on the bedding planes that separate the layers of sedimentary rocks.
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Lutite
Lutite is old terminology, which is not widely used, by Earth scientists in field descriptions for fine-grained, sedimentary rocks, which are composed of silt-size sediment, clay-size sediment, or a mixture of both. Sedimentary rock and Lutite are sedimentary rocks.
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Lysocline
The lysocline is the depth in the ocean dependent upon the carbonate compensation depth (CCD), usually around 5 km, below which the rate of dissolution of calcite increases dramatically because of a pressure effect.
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Marine regression
A marine regression is a geological process occurring when areas of submerged seafloor are exposed during a drop in sea level.
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Marine snow
In the deep ocean, marine snow (also known as "ocean dandruff") is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column.
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Marine transgression
A marine transgression is a geologic event during which sea level rises relative to the land and the shoreline moves toward higher ground, which results in flooding.
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Mass wasting
Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity.
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Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.
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Metamorphism
Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture.
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Meteoric water
Meteoric water, derived from precipitation such as snow and rain, includes water from lakes, rivers, and ice melts, all of which indirectly originate from precipitation.
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Mica
Micas are a group of silicate minerals whose outstanding physical characteristic is that individual mica crystals can easily be split into extremely thin elastic plates.
Microscope
A microscope is a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.
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Milankovitch cycles
Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years.
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Mineral
In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.
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Mineralogy of Mars
The mineralogy of Mars is the chemical composition of rocks and soil that encompass the surface of Mars.
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Molasse
In geology, "molasse" are sandstones, shales and conglomerates that form as terrestrial or shallow marine deposits in front of rising mountain chains.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
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Mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground.
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Mud
Mud is loam, silt or clay mixed with water.
Mud volcano
A mud volcano or mud dome is a landform created by the eruption of mud or slurries, water and gases. Sedimentary rock and mud volcano are Petrology.
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Mudcrack
Mudcracks (also known as mud cracks, desiccation cracks or cracked mud) are sedimentary structures formed as muddy sediment dries and contracts.
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Mudflat
Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers.
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Mudrock
Mudrocks are a class of fine-grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. Sedimentary rock and Mudrock are sedimentary rocks.
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Natural resource
Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.
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Northwestern United States
The Northwestern United States, also known as the American Northwest or simply the Northwest, is an informal geographic region of the United States.
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Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.
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Oceanic basin
In hydrology, an oceanic basin (or ocean basin) is anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater.
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Oil shale
Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons can be produced. Sedimentary rock and Oil shale are sedimentary rocks.
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Onlap
Onlap or overlap is the geological phenomenon of successively wedge-shaped younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks.
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Ooid
Ooids are small (commonly ≤2 mm in diameter), spheroidal, "coated" (layered) sedimentary grains, usually composed of calcium carbonate, but sometimes made up of iron- or phosphate-based minerals. Sedimentary rock and Ooid are Petrology and sedimentary rocks.
Oolite
Oolite or oölite is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. Sedimentary rock and Oolite are Petrology and sedimentary rocks.
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Opal
Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica (SiO2·nH2O); its water content may range from 3% to 21% by weight, but is usually between 6% and 10%.
Optical mineralogy
Optical mineralogy is the study of minerals and rocks by measuring their optical properties.
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Ore
Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.
Organic matter
Organic matter, organic material, or natural organic matter refers to the large source of carbon-based compounds found within natural and engineered, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.
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Organic-rich sedimentary rocks
Organic-rich sedimentary rocks are a specific type of sedimentary rock that contains significant amounts (>3%) of organic carbon. Sedimentary rock and organic-rich sedimentary rocks are sedimentary rocks.
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Outline of academic disciplines
An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of knowledge, taught and researched as part of higher education.
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Overburden pressure
Pressure is force magnitude applied over an area.
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Palaeogeography
Palaeogeography (or paleogeography) is the study of historical geography, generally physical landscapes.
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Paleoclimatology
Paleoclimatology (British spelling, palaeoclimatology) is the scientific study of climates predating the invention of meteorological instruments, when no direct measurement data were available.
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Papakolea Beach
Papakōlea Beach (also known as Green Sand Beach or Mahana Beach) is a green sand beach located near South Point, in the Kaokinaū district of the island of Hawaiokinai.
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Passive margin
A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin.
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Pedology
Pedology (from Greek: πέδον, pedon, "soil"; and λόγος, logos, "study") is a discipline within soil science which focuses on understanding and characterizing soil formation, evolution, and the theoretical frameworks for modeling soil bodies, often in the context of the natural environment.
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Permeability (materials science)
Permeability in fluid mechanics, materials science and Earth sciences (commonly symbolized as k) is a measure of the ability of a porous material (often, a rock or an unconsolidated material) to allow fluids to pass through it.
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Permineralization
Permineralization is a process of fossilization of bones and tissues in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms.
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Petrographic microscope
A petrographic microscope is a type of optical microscope used to identify rocks and minerals in thin sections.
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Phosphorite
Phosphorite, phosphate rock or rock phosphate is a non-detrital sedimentary rock that contains high amounts of phosphate minerals. Sedimentary rock and Phosphorite are sedimentary rocks.
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Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.
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Physical geography
Physical geography (also known as physiography) is one of the three main branches of geography.
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Plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.
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Plasticity (physics)
In physics and materials science, plasticity (also known as plastic deformation) is the ability of a solid material to undergo permanent deformation, a non-reversible change of shape in response to applied forces.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Point bar
A point bar is a depositional feature made of alluvium that accumulates on the inside bend of streams and rivers below the slip-off slope.
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Pore water pressure
Pore water pressure (sometimes abbreviated to pwp) refers to the pressure of groundwater held within a soil or rock, in gaps between particles (pores).
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Porosity
Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%.
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Precipitation (chemistry)
In an aqueous solution, precipitation is the "sedimentation of a solid material (a precipitate) from a liquid solution".
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Prentice Hall
Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.
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Pressure solution
In structural geology and diagenesis, pressure solution or pressure dissolution is a deformation mechanism that involves the dissolution of minerals at grain-to-grain contacts into an aqueous pore fluid in areas of relatively high stress and either deposition in regions of relatively low stress within the same rock or their complete removal from the rock within the fluid. Sedimentary rock and pressure solution are Petrology and sedimentary rocks.
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Provenance (geology)
Provenance in geology, is the reconstruction of the origin of sediments.
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Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide).
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Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).
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Quaternary
The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
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Quaternary glaciation
The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing.
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Radiolaria
The Radiolaria, also called Radiozoa, are protozoa of diameter 0.1–0.2 mm that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule dividing the cell into the inner and outer portions of endoplasm and ectoplasm.
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Radiolarite
Radiolarite is a siliceous, comparatively hard, fine-grained, chert-like, and homogeneous sedimentary rock that is composed predominantly of the microscopic remains of radiolarians. Sedimentary rock and Radiolarite are sedimentary rocks.
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Red beds
Red beds (or redbeds) are sedimentary rocks, typically consisting of sandstone, siltstone, and shale, that are predominantly red in color due to the presence of ferric oxides. Sedimentary rock and red beds are sedimentary rocks.
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Rhythmite
A rhythmite consists of layers of sediment or sedimentary rock which are laid down with an obvious periodicity and regularity. Sedimentary rock and rhythmite are sedimentary rocks.
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Rift
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
Ripple marks
In geology, ripple marks are sedimentary structures (i.e., bedforms of the lower flow regime) and indicate agitation by water (current or waves) or directly by wind.
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River delta
A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
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Road
A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians.
Rock (geology)
In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. Sedimentary rock and rock (geology) are Petrology and rocks.
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Rockslide
A rockslide is a type of landslide caused by rock failure in which part of the bedding plane of failure passes through compacted rock and material collapses en masse and not in individual blocks.
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Roundness (geology)
Roundness is the degree of smoothing due to abrasion of sedimentary particles.
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Rudite
Rudite is a general name used for a sedimentary rock composed of rounded or angular detrital grains, i.e. granules, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders, which are coarser than sand in size. Sedimentary rock and Rudite are sedimentary rocks.
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Sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.
Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral. Sedimentary rock and Sandstone are sedimentary rocks.
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Scavenger
Scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.
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Sea
A sea is a large body of salty water.
Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
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Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles. Sedimentary rock and Sediment are Petrology.
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Sediment gravity flow
This turbidite from the Devonian Becke-Oese Sandstone of Germany is an example of a deposit from a sediment gravity flow. Note the complete Bouma sequence. A sediment gravity flow is one of several types of sediment transport mechanisms, of which most geologists recognize four principal processes.
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Sediment transport
Sediment transport is the movement of solid particles (sediment), typically due to a combination of gravity acting on the sediment, and the movement of the fluid in which the sediment is entrained.
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Sedimentary basin
Sedimentary basins are region-scale depressions of the Earth's crust where subsidence has occurred and a thick sequence of sediments have accumulated to form a large three-dimensional body of sedimentary rock.
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Sedimentary structures
Sedimentary structures include all kinds of features in sediments and sedimentary rocks, formed at the time of deposition.
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Sedimentation
Sedimentation is the deposition of sediments.
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Sedimentology
Sedimentology encompasses the study of modern sediments such as sand, silt, and clay, and the processes that result in their formation (erosion and weathering), transport, deposition and diagenesis. Sedimentary rock and Sedimentology are sedimentary rocks.
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Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. Sedimentary rock and Shale are sedimentary rocks.
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Shoal
In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation.
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Silicate mineral
Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups.
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Siliceous rock
Siliceous rocks are sedimentary rocks that have silica (SiO2) as the principal constituent. Sedimentary rock and Siliceous rock are sedimentary rocks.
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Siliciclastic
Siliciclastic (or siliclastic) rocks are clastic noncarbonate sedimentary rocks that are composed primarily of silicate minerals, such as quartz or clay minerals. Sedimentary rock and Siliciclastic are sedimentary rocks.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.
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Silt
Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.
Slump (geology)
A slump is a form of mass wasting that occurs when a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
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Smectite
A smectite is a mineral mixture of various swelling sheet silicates (phyllosilicates), which have a three-layer 2:1 (TOT) structure and belong to the clay minerals.
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Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
Soil formation
Soil formation, also known as pedogenesis, is the process of soil genesis as regulated by the effects of place, environment, and history.
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Solution (chemistry)
In chemistry, a solution is a special type of homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances.
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Sorting (sediment)
Sorting describes the distribution of grain size of sediments, either in unconsolidated deposits or in sedimentary rocks. Sedimentary rock and Sorting (sediment) are sedimentary rocks.
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Source rock
In petroleum geology, source rock is rock which has generated hydrocarbons or which could generate hydrocarbons.
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Sphere
A sphere (from Greek) is a geometrical object that is a three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle.
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Sphericity
Sphericity is a measure of how closely the shape of an object resembles that of a perfect sphere.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as either bedding surfaces or bedding planes.
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Structural geology
Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories.
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Stylolite
Stylolites (Greek: stylos, pillar; lithos, stone) are serrated surfaces within a rock mass at which mineral material has been removed by pressure dissolution, in a deformation process that decreases the total volume of rock. Sedimentary rock and Stylolite are Petrology and sedimentary rocks.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
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Sulfate mineral
The sulfate minerals are a class of minerals that include the sulfate ion within their structure.
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Supersaturation
In physical chemistry, supersaturation occurs with a solution when the concentration of a solute exceeds the concentration specified by the value of solubility at equilibrium.
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Suspended load
The suspended load of a flow of fluid, such as a river, is the portion of its sediment uplifted by the fluid's flow in the process of sediment transportation.
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Suspension (chemistry)
In chemistry, a suspension is a heterogeneous mixture of a fluid that contains solid particles sufficiently large for sedimentation.
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Swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.
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Sylvite
Sylvite, or sylvine, is potassium chloride (KCl) in natural mineral form.
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Tectonic subsidence
Tectonic subsidence is the sinking of the Earth's crust on a large scale, relative to crustal-scale features or the geoid.
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Tectonic uplift
Tectonic uplift is the geologic uplift of Earth's surface that is attributed to plate tectonics.
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Tectonics
Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
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Textile
Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc.
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Texture (geology)
In geology, texture or rock microstructure refers to the relationship between the materials of which a rock is composed. Sedimentary rock and texture (geology) are Petrology.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.
Till
Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment. Sedimentary rock and till are sedimentary rocks.
Tissue (biology)
In biology, tissue is an assembly of similar cells and their extracellular matrix from the same embryonic origin that together carry out a specific function.
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Total organic carbon
Total organic carbon (TOC) is an analytical parameter representing the concentration of organic carbon in a sample.
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Touchet Formation
The Touchet Formation or Touchet beds consist of well-bedded, coarse to fine sand and silt which overlays local bedrock composed of Neogene basalt of the Columbia River Basalt Group in south-central Washington and north-central Oregon.
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Trace fossil
A trace fossil, also known as an ichnofossil (from ἴχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological activity by lifeforms but not the preserved remains of the organism itself.
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Tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.
Tunnel
A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway.
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Turbidite
A turbidite is the geologic deposit of a turbidity current, which is a type of amalgamation of fluidal and sediment gravity flow responsible for distributing vast amounts of clastic sediment into the deep ocean. Sedimentary rock and turbidite are sedimentary rocks.
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Turbidity current
A turbidity current is most typically an underwater current of usually rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope; although current research (2018) indicates that water-saturated sediment may be the primary actor in the process.
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Turbulence
In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity.
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Unconformity
An unconformity is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous.
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Varve
A varve is an annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rock and varve are sedimentary rocks.
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Vascular tissue
Vascular tissue is a complex conducting tissue, formed of more than one cell type, found in vascular plants.
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Vicious circle
A vicious circle (or cycle) is a complex chain of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop, with detrimental results.
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Volatile (astrogeology)
Volatiles are the group of chemical elements and chemical compounds that can be readily vaporized. Sedimentary rock and Volatile (astrogeology) are Petrology.
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Volcanic rock
Volcanic rocks (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) are rocks formed from lava erupted from a volcano.
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Volcanism
Volcanism, vulcanism, volcanicity, or volcanic activity is the phenomenon where solids, liquids, gases, and their mixtures erupt to the surface of a solid-surface astronomical body such as a planet or a moon.
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Wadi
Wadi (wādī), alternatively wād (وَاد), Maghrebi Arabic Oued) is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a river valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs. Arroyo (Spanish) is used in the Americas for similar landforms.
Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
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Way up structure
A way up structure, way up criterion, or geopetal indicator is a characteristic relationship observed in a sedimentary or volcanic rock, or sequence of rocks, that makes it possible to determine whether they are the right way up (i.e. in the attitude in which they were originally deposited, also known as "stratigraphic up" or "younging upwards") or have been overturned by subsequent deformation.
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Weathering
Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.
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Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.
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Wind wave
In fluid dynamics, a wind wave, or wind-generated water wave, is a surface wave that occurs on the free surface of bodies of water as a result of the wind blowing over the water's surface.
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See also
Rocks
- Anthropic rock
- Bedrock
- Bell stone
- Boulder
- Country rock (geology)
- Criminal rock-throwing
- Dallasite
- Desert varnish
- Fault breccia
- Fault gouge
- Geode
- Gloppedalsura
- Howard's Rock
- Igneous rocks
- Intrusive rock
- Keweenawite
- Limonite
- List of minerals named Tasmanite
- List of sea stacks in Scotland
- Metamorphic rocks
- Meteorites
- Mohawkite
- Mountain soap
- Outcrop
- Pet Rock
- Plastistone
- Pulpí Geode
- Pyroclastic rocks
- Rock (geology)
- Rock climbing
- Rock formations
- Rock mass classification
- Rock-cut architecture
- Rocks at Freyr
- Sailing stones
- Sedimentary rock
- Sedimentary rocks
- Sesostris Rock
- Sliding criterion (geotechnical engineering)
- Tasmanite (mineral)
- Tasmanite (tektite)
- Tilt test (geotechnical engineering)
- Ventifact
- Weaubleau egg
- Whinstone
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