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geologist

[jee-ol-uh-jist] / dʒiˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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The books themselves were both 1836 works about fossils, written by geologist Reverend William Buckland.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

"This thickened, heated crust may have made the region mechanically weaker, so that the plate boundary preferentially shifted here," explains co-author PD Dr. Jörg Geldmacher, marine geologist at GEOMAR.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Two of the men are engineers and one is a geologist, according to local media.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

“There’s just huge potential there,” said James Faulds, a professor and geologist at the University of Nevada, Reno.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

He was a civil engineer and a geologist, with a special interest in landslides.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone




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