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1897 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 53 516 The final stages in the history of the district are represented by the raised beaches, which prove that this region..has quite recently been under the influence of a geocratic movement.

1930 E. W. Berry Revision Lower Eocene Wilcox Flora of Southeastern States 2/2 The dominant influence..consisted of changes in marine conditions rather than changes in the attitude of the land—that is, it was thalassocratic rather than geocratic.

1951 G. Taylor Geogr. 20th Cent. i. 5 Humboldt..thus developed what I have been accustomed to call a ‘Geocratic’ type of geography, which suggests that the earth (i.e. Nature) itself plays a great part in determining the type of life which develops in a particular area.

2004 J. A. Matthews & D. T. Herbert Unifying Geogr. v. 111 The kind of intellectual position to which he [sc. Griffith Taylor] subscribed demanded a shift from ‘theocratic’ (God-centred) to ‘geocratic’ (environment-centred) thinking.

2005 J. M. Mabesoone & V. H. Neumann Cyclic Devel. Sedimentary Basins vii. 225 The Late Carboniferous-Triassic geocratic phase shows continental deposits and some invasions of the sea.