GEOLOGIC PROCESS

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Meaning:

(geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified

Synonyms:

geologic process; geological process

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("geologic process" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Domain category:

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

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

alluvion (gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment)

desertification (the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land)

diastrophism (the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust)

eating away; eroding; erosion; wearing; wearing away ((geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it))

fold; folding (a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock)

glaciation (the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice)

intrusion (the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation)

metamorphism (change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction of new chemical substances)

orogeny (the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust))

stratification (forming or depositing in layers)

subduction (a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate)