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- noun A
geologist whose speciality isgeomorphology
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Examples
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"What is so remarkable about this new island, apart from its sudden apparition, is that it has since remained intact in what is often a very violent, hostile sea environment," said Guy Estève, a retired local geomorphologist.
Fragile habitat of French mystery island 'risks being trampled underfoot' 2010
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David Montgomery, geomorphologist: He's written two general-interest books on his work (both of which look pretty fascinating to me), Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, which argues that "soil is humanity's most essential resource" (and which led one customer reviewer, a friend of his, to mention that Dave is also "an entertaining pop-folk guitar [ist], who leads with guitar and vocals the local band 'Big Dirt.'"), and King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon.
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Now instead a revolution, led by a Canadian non-creationist geomorphologist John Shaw, is showing how great effects in bedrock can be done by instant pressure of vortices in water and general water flow.
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“Jim Hanson, a coastal geomorphologist at the University of Glasgow, told delegates at the International Geographical Union congress in the city yesterday that the erosion was expected to accelerate because sea levels are rising and the coastline is sinking.”
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As a Quaternary and glacial geomorphologist, I agree that geological training is important to understand climate and associated landscape change over long timescales.
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If people are making policy recommendations based on finds of peat at glacier margins, it seems a matter of common sense that one would want a report on the stratigraphy by a geologist or glacial geomorphologist.
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At a depth of between 8 and 40 miles, it's a thick semi-liquid mass that's in slow but constant movement that's why, when the Indus plate slipped down under the Burma plate, it will eventually cause the earthquakes on the backbone of Sumatra to erupt - an eddy current will form, increasing the heat in a narrow zone along the new bottom edge of the subducted plate - ask a geophysicist or geomorphologist.
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Oh, yeah, Goldberg's going to drop everything he's doing and find himself a geomorphologist so he can stop making a total dick of himself.
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“Jim Hanson, a coastal geomorphologist at the University of Glasgow, told delegates at the International Geographical Union congress in the city yesterday that the erosion was expected to accelerate because sea levels are rising and the coastline is sinking.”
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Since this was a team of experienced surveyors, work was begun at once and, with the assistance of our geomorphologist, dr.
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