What is "geologically"

Usage examples of "geologically".

That indicated to Laussedat that humans had been contemporary with the fossil rhino in a geologically remote time.

The Foxhall site, with the Foxhall jaw, was taken by many authorities to represent a geologically possible habitation site.

But what if there existed in geologically recent times, or even today, a rare species of hominid having physical features similar to those of Homo erectus!

Only a small portion of the surface of the earth has been geologically explored, and no part with sufficient care, as the important discoveries made every year in Europe prove.

Apparently, they represent the geologically oldest verified dinosaur remains, and at the same time they are the most primitive dinosaurs known so far.

Nevertheless, the simple facts about Antarctica are really strange and difficult to explain without invoking some notion of sudden, catastrophic and geologically recent change.

Corvus Landing was a young, geologically quiescent planet with a generally mild climate and minimal native vegetation.

The result is that the lands are wearing down at the geologically rapid average rate of somewhere about one foot in five thousand years.

Louis Agassiz, who first attentively traced the evidence which shows the geologically recent great extension of glaciers by studying the evidence of the action in fields they no longer occupy, geologists have now inspected a large part of the land areas with a view to finding the proofs of such ice work.

This fault system caused the 1971 San Fernando earthquake and is geologically similar to the system that generated the large 1952 Kern County earthquake.

In the metamorphic rocks no organic remains have been found, and they are geologically below all the rocks that do contain traces of animal life.

Nothing less than an integration of that life itself, globally, through a single awareness, could make it flourish in a span humanly, rather than geologically, meaningful.

For example, most of the African discoveries of Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus have occurred not in clearly identifiable geological contexts, but on the surface or in cave deposits, which are notoriously difficult to interpret geologically.

Exploration of gold showings in the Barren Lands, northeast of Yellowknife, and lead-zinc and iron-ore deposits on Baffin Island, as well as many other geologically favoured regions continued apace throughout the Diefenbaker Years.

The Chugach campsite on Valdez harbour happened to be the only place on the entire Alaska coast that could geologically support an oil tanker terminal.