GEOLOGIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geologic mean? 

• GEOLOGIC (adjective)
  The adjective GEOLOGIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or based on geology

  Familiarity information: GEOLOGIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOLOGIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or based on geology

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

geologic; geological

Context example:

geologic forces

Pertainym:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Derivation:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

 Context examples 

This may be pointing to a volcano-like origin of the spots, but we will have to wait for better resolution before we can make such geologic interpretations.

('Bright Spot' on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion, NASA)

The large number of these features and their wide distribution strongly suggest that late-stage volcanic activity was not an anomaly but an important part of the moon's geologic history.

(Evidence for Young Lunar Volcanism, NASA)

Since the icy shell is geologically young and features abundant evidence of past geologic activity, it was suspected that whatever salts exist on the surface may derive from the ocean below.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

Williams worked with the JPL team to identify what geologic units on Titan could be determined using first the radar images and then to extrapolate those units to the non-radar-covered regions.

(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)

Researchers believe massive geologic activity would have allowed huge bursts of methane to escape the planet and warm the atmosphere.

(Methane Gas May Have Caused Greenhouse Effect on Young Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The accumulation of dense ring particles in one place suggests that some process either placed the particles there in the recent geologic past or the particles are somehow being confined there.

(At Saturn, One of These Rings is not like the Others, NASA)

Large boulders displaced from their natural geologic location by glaciers.

(Erratics, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

The study comes out of the ROSETTA-Ice project, a three-year effort to collect geologic, oceanographic and glaciological data in the Ross Sea region.

(Study in Antarctic waters reveals why Ross Ice Shelf melts in summer, National Science Foundation)

Scientists also have been eager to find out if Dione has geologic activity, like Saturn's geyser-spouting moon Enceladus, but at a much lower level.

(Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione, NASA)

The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the Murray Buttes region of lower Mount Sharp.

(Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations, NASA)