Definition of Geologic time

1. Noun. The time of the physical formation and development of the earth (especially prior to human history).

Exact synonyms: Geological Time
Generic synonyms: Time
Specialized synonyms: Aeon, Eon, Geological Period, Period, Era, Geological Era, Epoch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Geologic Time

geolithological
geolocated
geolocation
geolocational
geolocative
geolocator
geolocators
geologer
geologers
geologic
geologic era
geologic eras
geologic joint
geologic process
geologic sediments
geologic time (current term)
geologic timescale
geologic timescales
geological
geological dating
geological era
geological fault
geological formation
geological horizon
geological matrix
geological period
geological phenomenon
geological process
geological time
geologically

Literary usage of Geologic time

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"geologic time indicated by the Sedimentary Rocks of North America.—Various geologists have speculated as to the age of the earth, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Nevertheless, paleogeography is still in its infancy, and most of the maps embrace too much geologic time, all of them showing the changes that transpired ..."

3. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"... CHAPTER XXVI PRIMORDIAL geologic time We learned in the previous chapter what were the probable cosmic stages which led up to the origin of the earth, ..."

4. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1893)
"Of all subjects of speculative geology few are more attractive or more uncertain in positive results than geologic time. The physicists have drawn the lines ..."

5. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"APPENDIX I geologic time SCALE geologic time is subdivided into eras, periods, epochs, etc. The corresponding names for the rock bodies are groups, systems, ..."

6. Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries Showing Oceans, Continents by Athelstan Spilhaus (1991)
"Movement of Land Masses through geologic time To show the movement, accretion and separation of masses of land through geologic time is a challenge in ..."

7. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"The names applied to the divisions of geologic time and to the rocks are not the ... We give below a list of the major divisions of geologic time and their ..."

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