geology_terms
ablation
accelerator
accessory
accreted
accretionary
acicular
aeromagnetic
agglomeratic
aggregate
air-fall
albite-twinned
alkali
alkalic
alkaline
allochthonous
allotriomorphic
alluvial
alluvial-facies
alluvial-fan
alluvium
alteration
aluminous
amalgamation
amphibolitic
amygdaloidal
amygdaloids
anastomosing
anatectic
andesitic
anhedral
annealed
annealing
anomaly
anticline
anticlinorium
antidunes
antiform
aphanitic
aphyric
aplitic
apophyses
aquifer
arenaceous
argillaceous
argillic
argillitic
argillized
argon
arkosic
arsenic
ash-fall
ashflow
ash-flow
augen
aureole
authigenic
autobrecciated
autoclastic
autoliths
avalanche
axes
axis
badlands
ball-and-pillow
band
banded
bank
barren
bars
basaltic
basement
basin
batholith
batholithic
bathyal
beach
bed
bedded
bedding
bedrock
bench
biaxial
bi-modal
bioclastic
biostratigraphy
bioturbated
bioturbation
bipolar
birdsfoot
bituminous
blastomylonitic
block
blocking
blocky-weathering
bloom
bluff-forming
bluffs
boggy
bombs
bone
bonnet
books
borehole
boron
boudinage
boudinaged
boudins
boulder
boundary
boxwork
brackish-water
braided
brecciated
brecciation
bridge
brittle
calc-alkaline
calcareous
calcic
calcitic
calcium
caldera
caliche
cap
carbonaceous
carbonized
cardium
cast
cataclasis
cataclastic
cataclysmic
cauldron
cauldron-filling
cavernous
cellular
cement
cemented
center
channel-fill
channel-fill
channels
channelways
chatoyant
chemical
cherty
chevrons
chill
chilled-margin
chilling
chips
chonchoidal-fracturing
chromium
chutes
cinder
cinder cone
cirque
cirques
clast
clastic
clayey
cleavage
cleavages
cleaved
cliff
coaly
coarse-crystalline
coarse-grained
coarsely-crystalline
coarser-grained
cobble
coeval
collapse
colluvial
colluvium
columnar
columnar-jointed
columns
comagmatic
comagmatically
compaction
complex
compound-cooling
concentration
conchoidal
conchoidal-fracturing
conchoidally
concordant
concordantly
concrete
concretionary
concretions
cone-in-cone
cone-shaped
conformable
contact
contact-metamorphic
contact-metamorphosed
contact-parallel
contemporaneous
continuity
contortion
copper
core complex
correlate
correlation
correlations
cosets
coulee
couples
couplet
cratonic
cream
creep
crenulated
crenulating
crossbedded
cross-bedded
crossbedding
crossbeds
cross-beds
crosscut
cross-cut
cross-cuts
cross-cutting
cross-laminae
cross-laminated
cross-laminations
cross-section
cross-stratification
cross-stratified
cryptocrystalline
crystal
crystalline
crystallization
crystallized
crystalloblastic
crystalloblasts
cumulate
current
cut-and-fill
cut-and-fill
cyclic
cyclical
dacitic
dating
debris
debris-flow
deformation
densely-welded
deposit
deposition
depositional
depositionally
desiccation
detachment
detrital
detritus
deuteric
devitrified
dewatering
diabasic-textured
diagenetic
diatomaceous
diatreme
differentially
differentiate
differentiated
differentiates
diggings
dike
dikelets
dioritic
dip
disconformably
disconformity
discontinuity
discontinuous
discontinuously
discordance
discordant
dish structure
disharmonic
dissected
disseminated
district
disturbance
dolomitic
dome
domelike
domes
dome-shaped
down-dip
down-faulted
downslope
down-slope
dredging
drift
drill
dropstones
drop-stones
ductile
dune
earth
earthflow
eddy
ejecta-like
embayment
emplaced
emplacement
enclaves
encrustations
energy
entablature
eolian
epizonal
equant
equigranular
eroded
eroding
erosion
erosional
eruption
eruptive
escape
eskers
euhedral
eutaxitic
exfoliate
exfoliated
extension
extensional
extinct
extinction
extrabasinal
extrusive
fabric
facies
fan
fanglomerate
fault
faulted
faulting
fauna
faunal
feather
feeder
feldspathic
felsic
felted
felty
Fe-oxide
ferroan
ferromagnesian
ferromagnesium
ferruginous
fetid
fibrous
field
fill
filling
fine-crystalline
fined-grained
fine-grained
fine-laminated
finer-grained
fine-textured
fining
fining-upward
fissile
fission
flaggy
flakes
flame structures
flat-laminated
floodplain
flood-related
floods
floodwaters
floras
flow
flow-banded
flow-banding
flow-breccia
flow-laminated
flow-layered
flowtop
fluid
fluid-escape
fluid-escape structures
flute
fluvial
fluvioglacial
fold
folding
foliate
foliated
foliation
footwall
foreland
foreset
formation
formational
fossiliferous
fossilized
fraction
fracture
fragment
fragmental
fresh
fresh-water
friable
frost-heaved
gabbroic
garnetiferous
gas
gently-dipping
geochemical
geochemically
geochemistry
geochronology
geologic
geological
geology
geomorphic
giant
glacial
glaciation
glaciations
glacier
glacier-dammed
glaciofluvial
glaciogenic
glaciolacustrine
glass
glassy
glauconitic
glomerocrysts
gneissic
gouge
graben
grade
grain
granitic
granitized
granoblastic
granodioritic
granofelsic
granophyric
granular
granulation
granule
graphic
graphitic
gravel
gravelly
green-bed
greenschist
greenschist-facies
greisen
grit
ground
groundmass
group
growth
grus
grussy
grusy-weathering
gulch
gypsiferous
habit
hackly
heavy-mineral
hematitic
hematized
heterogeneous
high-grade
hinges
hogback
holocrystalline
homogeneous
homogenization
hoodoo
horizon
horizontal
hornfels
host
hot
hot-ash-flow
hot-spring
hummocky
hydration
hydrocarbon
hydrothermal
hydrothermally
hypabyssal
hypidiomorphic
ice
igneous
imbricate
imbricated
impregnated
incipiently
incised
inclusions
indurated
inequigranular
informally
inhomogeneous
injection
inlier
interbedded
interbeds
intercalated
intercalations
interclasts
interdigitating
interference
interfingered
interfingers
intergrown
intergrowths
interlayered
interlayering
interlayers
interleaved
interlensing
intermediate-composition
intermingled
intermingling
intermixed
intermontane
interstices
interstitial
interstratified
intertidal
intertongues
intertonguing
interval
intrabasinal
intraclast
intraformational
intrusion
intrusive
inverted
iron
iron-carbonate
iron-cemented
iron-stained
island
island-arc
isochrons
isoclinal
isoclinally
isograd
isotope
jointed
jointing
joints
kame
karst
keratophyric
kinked
laccolith
lacustrine
lag
lahar
laharic
lake-bed
lakebeds
laminae
laminated
lamination
lamprophyre
lamprophyric
land
landforms
landslide
landsliding
lapilli
late-growth
lateral
late-stage
lath
lathlike
latitic
lava
layer
layered
layering
lead
leaf
ledge
lens
lensoid
lensoidal
lenticles
lenticular
lenticularly
lentils
leucocratic
leucosomes
levees
level
lignitic
limb
limey
limonitic
lineament
linear
lineate
lineated
lineation
listric
lithic
lithified
lithofacies
lithologic
lithologically
lithologies
lithology
lithophysae
lithophysal
lithostratigraphy
lit-par-lit
load
lobate
loess
lower-grade
lower-greenschist-facies
low-grade
luster
macroscopic
mafic
magma
magmatic
magmatically
magnesium
magnetic
magnetized
magnetostratigraphic
magnetotelluric
major-element
mammillary
manganese
mantle
marker
marl
marlstone
mass
massive
massive-bedded
massively
massive-weathering
matrices
matrix
matrix-supported
mats
medium-grade
medium-grained
megacrystic
megacrysts
megaripples
megascopically
melanocratic
melasomes
melts
meltwater
member
meta
metacrysts
metaflow
metaigneous
meta-igneous
metallic
metamorphic
metamorphism
metamorphosed
metasedimentary
metasomatic
metasomatism
metasomatized
meta-ultramafic
metavolcanic
miarolitic
micaceous
microcrystalline
microgranular
micrographic
microlaminae
microlaminated
microlites
microperthitic
microphenocrysts
microvesicles
middle-greenschist
migmatitic
migmatization
migmatized
mine
mineral
mineralization
mineralized
mineralogical
mineralogically
mineralogy
mining
moderately-foliated
molar-tooth
molybdenum
monoliths
monzodioritic
monzogranitic
moraine
morphology
mottling
muck
mud
mudchip
mud-chip
mudcracked
mud-cracked
mudcracks
muddy
mudflow
multicolored
multilithologic
muscovitic
mylonitic
mylonitization
mylonitized
mylontitic
neck
nodular
nodules
noncalcareous
non-calcareous
non-carbonate
noncompacted
nonconsolidated
non-deposition
nondesiccate
nonfibrous
non-foliate
nonfoliated
non-foliated
nonlaminated
non-mudcracked
nonnvolcanic
non-perthitic
non-polygonal
nonporphyritic
non-porphyritic
non-ribboned
nonvolcaniclastic
non-volcaniclastic
norm
obsidian
octahedra
oil
oncolites
ooids
oolite
oolitic
opaque
ophitic
ore
organic
oscillation
outburst
outcrop
outflow
outlet
outlier
outpouring
outwash
overbank
overgrowths
overlain
overlying
overthrust
overturned
ovoids
oxbow
oxidation
oxide
oxide-cemented
oxygenation
paleobarometry
paleokarst
paleomagnetic
paleomagnetism
paleontologic
paleosol
paleovalleys
paludal
parallel-laminated
parting
peat
pebble
pediment
pegmatitic
pelitic
pelletoidal
pellets
pendant
pendants
penecontemporaneous
peraluminous
perlitic
permeability
permeable
petrified
petrogenetically
petrographically
petrologic
petrologically
phaneritic
phase
phenocryst
phosphatic
phosphoria
phyllonitic
phyric
piedmont-slope
pillar
pillow
pillowed
pilotaxitic
pinch
pinches
pipes
pisolites
placer
placered
planar
planar-bedded
planar-laminated
plane
plane-laminated
plant
plateau
plates
platy-weathering
pleochroic
plug
plunge
pluton
plutonic
pod
poikilitic
poikiloblastic
polarities
polarity
poorly-indurated
porcelaneous
porcellanitic
porous
porphryritic
porphyries
porphyritic
porphyroblastic
porphyroblasts
porphyroclasts
porphyry
potassic
potassium-argon
powder
product
profile
propylitized
protoliths
pseudoconglomerate
pseudocrossbedding
pseudohexagonal
pseudomorphs
ptygmatic
ptygmatically
pumiceous
punky-weathering
pyritic
pyroclastic
pyroclastics
quaquaversally
quarry
quartzitic
quartzofeldspathic
quartzo-feldspathic
quartzose
quenched
radiating
radioactive
radioactivity
radiocarbon
radiogenic
ramparts
rapakivi
reactivation
recrystallization
recrystallized
red-bed
reduction
refractory
regolith
relict
remnant
replacement
reservoir
residual
residue
resistance
reversal
reversed
reworked
rhyodacitic
rhyolitic
ribbon
ribbon-laminated
ridge-forming
rifting
rim
rimmed
rinds
ring
ripple
ripple-cross
ripple-cross-laminated
rippled
ripple-drift
ripple-marked
rip-ups
rock
rockfall
rockslide-avalanches
rods
roof
rosettes
rotational
rough-weathering
round
rounding
roundstone
rubble
sags
salic
saline
salt
salt-and-pepper
sample
sampling
sand
sandier
sandy
saussuritized
scabland
scales
scarps
schistose
schistosity
schlieren
scoriaceous
scour
scour-and-fill
scoured
scree
screens
seam
sediment
sedimentary
sedimentation
segregation
seismic
selvages
semiconsolidated
seriate
sericitized
serpentinized
shaly
shear
sheared
shearing
shear-sense
sheen
sheet
sheetlike
sheetwash
shelly
shoreface
shrinkage
sieve-textured
silica
siliceous
silicic
siliciclastic
silicified
sill
sillimanitic
silt
silty
silver
sinkholes
sinter
skarn
slab
slabby
slackwater
slag
slate
slice
slickenside
slide
slip
slope
slope-wash
sloping
slump
slumping
sodium
soft-sediment
soil
solid
solifluction
solution
solution-brecciated
solution-pitted
specimen
spheroidal
spheroids
spherulitic
spur
stage
stains
stock
stone
stoped
stopes
stoping
straight-crested
strain
strata
stratabound
stratification
stratified
stratiform
stratigraphic
stratigraphically
stratigraphy
stratovolcano
stream-deposited
stream-laid
striae
strike
striking
stringers
stromatolitic
structural
structurally
structure
structureless
subaerial
subangular
sub-angular
subaqueous
subaqueously
subequigranular
subhedral
submagmatic
subophitic
subtidal
supergroup
superjacent
surface
surficial
susceptibility
swales
swarm
swell
syenitic
syndeformational
synform
syngenetic
synkinematic
synorogenic
syntectonic
system
tabular
tailings
talus
tectonic
tectonically
tectonics
terrace
terraces
terrain
terrane
terranes
terrigenous
thermal
thermally
thick-bedded
thick-layered
thin-bedded
thinly-laminated
thinly-layered
tholeiitic
thrust
thrust-faulted
till
titanium
tonalitic
tongue
tooth
tors
trace
trace-element
trachytic
track
translucent
trench
trondhjemitic
trough
trough-cross-bedded
trunk
tuffaceous
tungsten
tunnel
turbidity
ultramafic
ultramylonitic
unbrecciated
unconformable
unconformably
unconformities
unconformity
unconsolidated
uncracked
undeformed
underlain
underlie
underlying
undersaturated
undifferentiated
unexposed
unfoliated
unmylonitized
unroofing
unsheared
unstratified
untwinned
unweathered
unzoned
uplands
uplift
uplifted
upright
upward-fining
upward-fining
uralitic
uranium-lead
valley-fill
valley-fill
valley-filling
variegated
varved
varves
vein
veined
veinlets
vent
vesicles
vesicular
vitreous
vitric
vitrophyre
vitrophyric
void
volcanic
volcaniclastic
volcanism
volcanogenic
vuggy
vugs
wacke
water
watercourses
water-escape
water-escape structures
water-expulsion
water-lain
water-worked
water-worn
wavelengths
wavy-bedded
wavy-laminated
wavy-parallel
waxy-looking
weather
weathering
wedge
well-banded
well-foliated
well-indurated
well-laminated
well-layered
well-lineated
well-sorted
well-stratified
worm-eaten
xenoblastic
xenocrystic
xenocrysts
xenoliths
zebra-striped
zeolitized
zonation
zone
zoned
zoning