English for Geography
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| accretion | geology | an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or water-borne sediment |
| bed | geology | a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of standstone |
| clast | geology | a constituent fragment of a clastic rock |
| clastic rock | geology | a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks |
| deflation | geology | the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind; "a constant deflation of the desert landscape |
| erosion, eroding, eating away, wearing, wearing away | geology | the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) |
| esker | geology | a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets |
| exceedance | geology | the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time; "the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modelling |
| fault, geological fault, shift, fracture, break | geology | a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault |
| fault line | geology | line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface |
| foliation | geology | the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock |
| geological formation, formation | geology | the geological features of the earth |
| geological process, geologic process | geology | a natural process whereby geological features are modified |
| heave | geology | a horizontal dislocation |
| kettle hole, kettle | geology | a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits |
| principle of superposition, superposition principle, superposition | geology | the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest |
| saltation | geology | the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface |
| shingling | geology | sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction |
| sill | geology | a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock |
| slide | geology | the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc. |
| superposition | geology | the deposition of one geological stratum on another |
| upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust | geology | a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) |
| xenolith | geology | a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded |