geologist
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Grace, 67, a retired geologist, has lived on the edge of Abercarn for more than 20 years, where housing gives way to open moorland.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 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
In it, a French geologist mentioned a single sabre shaped fossil tooth resembling those of the massive predator Carcharodontosaurus, originally found in Egypt's Western Desert in the early 1900s.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
The author documents Tennyson’s reaction to books by the geologist Charles Lyell, the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and the astronomer John Herschel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The hand that cups her cheek is strong: the hand of a geologist or a gardener.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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The Origins of Civilization, Lessons 1–2
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