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GEOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A specialist in geology
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("geologist" is a kind of...):
scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geologist"):
geophysicist (a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth)
hydrologist (a geologist skilled in hydrology)
oil geologist; petroleum geologist (a specialist in petroleum geology)
Instance hyponyms:
Arthur Holmes; Holmes (English geologist and supporter of the theory of continental drift (1890-1965))
Hutton; James Hutton (Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797))
Gideon Algernon Mantell; Mantell (English geologist remembered as the first person to recognize that dinosaurs were reptiles (1790-1852))
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft; Schoolcraft (United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864))
Derivation:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Context examples:
Pine Island Glacier is one of the most inhospitable and remote areas of Antarctica, so to get all the equipment needed to hot-water drill through the ice shelf required a major effort from our collaborators at the U.S. Antarctic Program, said James Smith, a marine geologist with BAS.
(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)
Using ancient sediment from outcrops along the edge of the lake, Emily Beverly, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Houston, along with researchers at Baylor University, generated a water-budget model to see how Lake Victoria's levels respond to changes in evaporation, temperature, rainfall and solar energy.
(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)
Titan has an active methane-based hydrologic cycle that has shaped a complex geologic landscape, making its surface one of most geologically diverse in the solar system, said Rosaly Lopes, a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and lead author of new research used to develop the map.
(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)
The group of four geologists from Ural Federal University set out for the Lut desert, or Dasht-e-Lut, in search of evidence of meteorites - similar to the one that crashed to earth in an impressive fireball over the Russian town of Chelyabinsk in 2013.
(Huge Haul of Extraterrestrial Material Recovered from Iranian Desert, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The study was led by Sarah Lambart, a geologist at the University of Utah.
(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)
"We found a new way to make volcanoes," says geologist Esteban Gazel of Cornell University.
(Scientists discover a new way volcanoes form, NSF)
