| 单词 | geology |
| 释义 | geology (dʒiɒlədʒi ) 1. uncountable noun Geology is the study of the Earth's structure, surface, and origins. He was visiting professor of geology at the University of Jordan. geologist Word forms: geologists countable noun Geologists have studied the way that heat flows from the earth. 2. uncountable noun [usually with poss] The geology of an area is the structure of its land, together with the types of rocks and minerals that exist within it. ...an expert on the geology of southeast Asia. [+ of] Collocations: local geology But the local geology saved the area from an even greater disaster. Times, Sunday Times Then the underlying marshiness of the local geology started to make itself felt. Times, Sunday Times The local geology seemed to be having an identity crisis - the houses were of beautiful sun-paled pink sandstone, but the abundant scabious spoke of lime beneath the soil. Times, Sunday Times They knew so much about the local geology that they were able to extract 1.5 tonnes of the precious metal in only 50 years, cleaning out the entire deposit. Times, Sunday Times The low exchange of water and the local geology makes the water quite alkaline and it contains a lot of dissolved salts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 地质学 Japanese: 地質学 |
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