GEOLOGICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geologically mean? 

• GEOLOGICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb GEOLOGICALLY has 1 sense:

1. with respect to geology

  Familiarity information: GEOLOGICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOLOGICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With respect to geology

Context example:

geologically speaking, this area is extremely interesting

Pertainym:

geological (of or relating to or based on geology)

 Context examples 

That suggests the close-up region, which covers less than one percent of Pluto’s surface, may still be geologically active today.

(The Icy Mountains of Pluto, NASA)

The vast majority of the sampled grains originate from active jets that spray from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)

Unlike the tortured, geologically fresh landscape of the south, Enceladus' northern extremes are heavily cratered and ancient.

(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)

A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.

(Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus, NASA)

Sodium chloride, for example, turned a shade of yellow similar to that visible in a geologically young area of Europa known as "Tara Regio."

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

Ceres is geologically active — if not now, then it may have been in the recent past.

(Dawn Finds Possible Ancient Ocean Remnants at Ceres, NASA)

The red arcs must be geologically young because they cut across older features like impact craters.

(Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

This is the only known example of a cryovolcano that potentially formed from a salty mud mix, and that formed in the geologically recent past.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)

"The Cassini mission revealed that Titan is a geologically active world, where hydrocarbons like methane and ethane take the role that water has on Earth," Williams said.

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

These scarps are small enough that scientists believe they must be geologically young, which means Mercury is still contracting and that Earth is not the only tectonically active planet in our solar system, as previously thought.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)