| 单词 | geological survey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgeological survey geological survey n. detailed investigation of the geological features and resources of a region; an instance or record of this; (also with capital initials) (the name of) an official body responsible for conducting such surveys.Many countries and states have established a Geological Survey, beginning with Great Britain in 1835. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > types of survey trigonometrical survey1801 geological survey1818 traverse survey1860 cadastral survey1861 coast-lining1902 resistivity survey1924 resistivity surveying1932 1818 Guide to Grand Cavern within Abraham's Heights, Matlock Bath 10 A Mineralogical and Geological Survey by Mr. Mawe, pronounces this Cavern to be a most interesting Mineral Discovery. 1846 (title) Memoirs of the geological survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Economic Geology in London. 1860 W. H. Brewer Let. 15 Nov. in Up & down Calif. (2003) 9 The members of the Geological Survey were on their way. 1879 Nature 27 Feb. 382/2 Why does he..speak of the ‘Cambrians’ and ‘Silurians?’ These are adjectives, and not nouns, and though in the field-slang of the Geological Survey, or of geologists generally they may be tolerated, they ought not to appear in any grave published work. 1902 H. J. L. Beadnell Prelim. Note Arsinoitherium Zitteli 3 Discovery of Eocene mammalian and reptilian remains made last year by the Geological Survey of Egypt. 1995 N. Hudson Soil Conservation (ed. 3) ix. 195 Geological surveys, soil surveys, meteorological and hydrological data. 2009 New Yorker 20 Apr. 89/2 One wildlife bulletin from the U.S. Geological Survey called the species ‘omnicarnivorous’. < as lemmas |
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