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  • verb Present participle of geologize.

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Examples

  • And we walked out to a nearby ridge where I knew there was some interesting geology exposed and we sat down - or rather I sat down - and they went off and they started geologizing.

    NASA Watch: Exploration: April 2010 Archives 2010

  • And we walked out to a nearby ridge where I knew there was some interesting geology exposed and we sat down - or rather I sat down - and they went off and they started geologizing.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2010 Archives 2010

  • And we walked out to a nearby ridge where I knew there was some interesting geology exposed and we sat down - or rather I sat down - and they went off and they started geologizing.

    NASA Watch: Space & Planetary Science: April 2010 Archives 2010

  • It seems strange to read in Scott's diary that the party spent a large part of the next day "geologizing."

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Whether Scott's geologizing was a magnificent example of dedication or a foolish diversion depends on your point of view.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Imre invited me for a day's geologizing at Battleship Promontory in the Convoy Range, where he was collecting rocks colonized by microbes.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • Near the close of the season he spent a short time geologizing Isle Royale, and returned to Saut St. Marie on the steamer Julia Palmer, which had, during the summer, been hauled over the passage of Saut St. Marie.

    Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin

  • We thanked him for his goodness, and thought, perhaps, of Sedgewick geologizing by the road-side, and getting a charitable half-crown flung at him by a noble lady who was on her way to dine in his company at the house of a mutual acquaintance.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

  • At the farm-house on the outskirts which served the golf devotees for a headquarters Shelby was told that Graves had gone yet farther, taking the direction of the Hilliard quarries -- geologizing bent, the speaker thought.

    The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

  • In the early dawn of a grey morning I was geologizing along the base of the Muhair Hills in South Behar, when all of a sudden there was a stampede of many pigs from the fringe of the jungle, with porcine shrieks of _sauve qui peut_ significance.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

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