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1897 C. R. Dryer Stud. Indiana Geogr. Index 112 Geobiology.

1906 C. R. Dryer Stud. Indiana Geogr. (rev. ed.) iii. 112 The third course is geobiology, which deals with the vegetable and animal elements of the earth organism.

1957 Ecology 38 145/1 Following the idea of Good (1947), who termed the combination of phytogeography and plant ecology as geobotany, a similar combination of biogeography and ecology can logically be known as ‘geobiology’.

1978 J. S. Olson et al. Changes in Global Carbon Cycle & Biosphere 5 Oceans have a greater storage capacity [for carbon dioxide] than land, but their response will be delayed by factors of chemistry.., physics..and perhaps geobiology (constraints on carbonate and organic sedimentation).

2007 New Yorker 22 Jan. 67/1 In island geobiology, mammals tend to grow smaller over evolutionary time.

1901 Exper. Station Rec. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 12 705 As a superficial geo-biological formation of the earth's crust, the soil differs from the parent rock from which it is derived in composition..and external morphological peculiarities.

1991–2 Issues in Sci. & Technol. Winter 70/1 Many scientific organizations have focused primarily on the pure science of ecosystem response, particularly aspects of geo-biological cycling.

2006 Wired Nov. 52/1 The approach..would string 10 semiautomated geobiological labs across the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate off Washington, 8,000 feet underwater.