Geology

je-ol′o-ji, n. the science relating to the history and development of the earth's crust, together with the several floras and faunas which have succe ively clothed and peopled its surface.— ns. Geolo′gian , Geol′ogist .— adjs. Geolog′ic , - al , pertaining to geology.— adv. Geolog′ically .— v.i. Geol′ogise .— Dynamical geology , the study of natural operations based on the belief that the effects of Nature's agents in the present will further interpret the records of such actions in the past; Structural geology , that geology which treats of the mode in which rocks are built up in the earth's crust. [Fr. géologie —Gr. gē , the earth, logia , a discourse.]