Geology is the study of the rocks the earth is made of. Study geology, the geology of the coast, a geology field trip.
Its founding idea is that the present is the key to the past — the processes visible now are the ones that made everything, given enough time. Working out how much time was the great nineteenth-century argument, and the answer was far more than anybody expected.
1noungeologyThe study of the rocks the earth is made of.
“She studied geology because she loved collecting rocks and fossils.”
geology is a science.
From Greek ge, the earth, plus -logia, the study of. The word came into English in the seventeenth century.
Latin
-logia — the study of
Ancient Greek
γεω- — earth
la-ren
geōlogia
English, today
geology
From geo + logy, partly after la-ren geōlogia, from Ancient Greek γεω- (“earth”) + Latin -logia (“the study of”), from Ancient Greek -λογία.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA