GEOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geologist mean? 

• GEOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun GEOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. a specialist in geology

  Familiarity information: GEOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in geology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("geologist" is a kind of...):

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geologist"):

geophysicist (a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth)

hydrologist (a geologist skilled in hydrology)

oil geologist; petroleum geologist (a specialist in petroleum geology)

Instance hyponyms:

Arthur Holmes; Holmes (English geologist and supporter of the theory of continental drift (1890-1965))

Hutton; James Hutton (Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797))

Gideon Algernon Mantell; Mantell (English geologist remembered as the first person to recognize that dinosaurs were reptiles (1790-1852))

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft; Schoolcraft (United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864))

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

But finding that material from the mantle's transition zone - some 250 to 400 miles beneath our planet's crust - can cause volcanoes to form is new to geologists.

(Scientists discover a new way volcanoes form, NSF)

"It is no doubt a curious formation," said I "but I am not geologist enough to say that it is wonderful."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Earth of 3.2 billion years ago was a "water world" of submerged continents, geologists say, after analyzing oxygen isotope data from ancient ocean crust now exposed on land in Australia.

(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)

To geologists, the mantle is much more than that.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)

The geologist had deployed eight infrasound instruments near the volcano's crater.

(Listen to the pulse of an erupting volcano, NSF)

New research led by Colby College geologist Robert Gastaldo has revealed the most definitive proof to date that the extinctions did not occur at the same time.

(Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous, National Science Foundation)

Led by Haile-Selassie, paleoanthropologists conducted extensive analyses, and geologists determined the age and context of the fossil.

(3.8-million-year-old fossil cranium unveils more about human ancestry, National Science Foundation)

However, geologists and astronomers have struggled to extend the astronomical time scale farther back than 50 million years because of solar system chaos, which has made the time scale unpredictable beyond a certain point.

(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)

New work by University of Wisconsin-Madison geologists Brad Singer, Brian Jicha and colleagues finds that the most recent field reversal 770,000 years ago took at least 22,000 years to complete, several times longer than previously thought.

(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)

The scientists, part of a team of geologists and paleontologists led by Xiaoming Wang of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, uncovered fossil specimens of the Tibetan fox in the Zanda Basin in southern Tibet.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)