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geology

[jee-ol-uh-jee] / dʒiˈɒl ə dʒi /


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Material thrown up from beneath the surface offers fresh clues about the Moon's geology, adding to what scientists already know about how the Earth-Moon system formed some 4.5 billion years ago.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

It conducts research in geology, biology, engineering and physics, the latter encompassing experiments studying dark matter, astrophysics and neutrinos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

"From an environmentalist point of view, this is chaos," said Silvio Pastore, a geology professor at the National University of San Juan.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

That achievement would give scientists a powerful new tool for studying lunar geology and reconstructing the Moon's long and complex history.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026

Meanwhile, geology had a great deal of sorting out to do, and not all of it went smoothly.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

“We use the same geologies that have kept hydrocarbons underground for millions of years,” said Julia Reichelstein, the company’s cofounder and CEO.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024

Reservoirs with high fracture density and connectivity, like the complicated geologies found in real-world settings, could provide even better results, the scientists said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023

The researchers fed their maps of building distribution and ground type into a set of models designed to predict how different geologies respond to pressure.

From Scientific American ● May 26, 2023

He hopes the predictive method can be applied to other areas of the world with similar geologies to Pakistan.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 23, 2017

Take the mythic cosmogonies of ancient Greece, Scandinavia, and India, and the geologies and astronomies of the present day, and compare their pages, changing things personal into things impersonal.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various




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