In England, the geologist Forbes distinguished himself in this matter, and also was the first to apply it to the theory of migrations and the geographical distribution of species dependent upon migration.
Louis Agassiz, stimulated by him, and considerably supported by the independent investigations of the eminent geologist Charpentier, afterwards undertook the task of carrying out the theory of the ice period.
Fournel, the first geologist who examined it (in 1864), christened it the Hyeres of the Sahara.
University of Minnesota; Geologist of Minnesota; author of numerous Reports and Technical Papers on Geology.
Colorado School of Mines; Geologist for Colorado Geological Survey; author of A Pocket Handbook of Minerals, etc.
In commencing these remarks, mention was made of the great obligations under which the naturalist lies to the geologist and paleontologist.
Those pyramids of coral rock are built upon a foundation which is itself formed by the deposits which the geologist has to deal with.
But the geologistis right; and due reflection on his teachings, instead of diminishing our reverence and our wonder, adds all the force of intellectual sublimity to the mere aesthetic intuition of the uninstructed beholder.
His engine was quite stopped; like Smith, the geologist wondered just how the craft's wheels were operated.
It was done by means of an extremely faint humming device, reminding the geologist of certain wireless apparata he had heard.
At first the geologist was puzzled to find that it carried a pair of many-jointed antennae.
It lasted only a second, however; the geologist remembered, and masked the expression before Billie could detect it.
It was a whole lot like going down into a placer mine," the geologist afterward said; and in view of what next met his eyes, he was justified in his guess.
Then his agent brought the craft to one of those nerve-racking stops; once more came a swimming of the brain, and then the geologist saw something that challenged his understanding.
From time to time Van Emmon's agent turned his mysterious periscope so as to take it all in, and the geologist was able to watch his fill.
The geologist stirred uneasily, and avoided his wife's eyes.
In half a minute the machine had reached the top of the slope, and the geologist looked eagerly for what might lie within the cave.
From what the geologist could see of the country below, it was quite certainly cultivated.
The geologist looked again, to make sure it was really his wife who had been talking thus.
A moment and Van Emmon was able to look again, and as it happened, the craft was now circling the amazing thing it had just quit, so that the geologist could truthfully say that he was dead sure of what he saw.
This new flight had not lasted two minutes before the geologist began to note other objects in the air.
The geologist was plainly relieved to have stated the case in full.
This told the geologist that his unsuspecting Sanusian was located in an aircraft much like the other.
To the last-mentioned agency the geologist is highly indebted; to the others also he owes a debt: but consider how they all do their work.
In the artificial denudation of mining and quarrying, though the rude forces of Nature are dispensed with, the enlightened hammer of the geologist can do very little by itself.
The geologist who is acquainted with the mammalian life of the Middle Tertiary period readily notes the fact that the variety in genera and species appears to be much greater than it is at the present time.
To the prospector this formation is known as the Blue Lime; to the geologist it is the Redwall Limestone.
Further than this no geologist of authority has, since the rise of the present enlightened school of geological speculation, attempted to go.
In general, the bare grey masses of the eminences on the bank were so singularly formed that it was impossible not to wish that an able geologist might make a minute investigation of the chain.
It were to be wished that the geologist and the painter might devote a considerable time to examine this part of the country, step by step; they would furnish a work of highest interest.
The fundamental principles of this general classification are developed in the great work in which this indefatigable British geologist purposes to describe the geology of a large part of Eastern Europe.
No geologist has ever had ocular proof that the vast rocks that compose our Carboniferous or Jurassic or Cretaceous strata were really deposited in water.
Further, no geologist has ever learned by direct observation that these various sedimentary formations were deposited in a certain order; yet all are agreed as to this order.
That statement is no longer disputed by any competent geologist or biologist.
As the editor must be a geologist as well as a naturalist, the next best editor would be Professor Forbes of London.
If none of these would undertake it, I would request you to consult with Mr Lyell, or some other capable man, for some editor, a geologist and naturalist.
Now these several facts, though evidently all more or less connected together, must by the creationist (though the geologist may explain some of the anomalies) be considered as so many ultimate facts.
The simple geologist can explain many of the foregoing cases of distribution.
But if this had happened on an island, whence could the new forms have come,--here the geologist calls in creationists.
Furthermore, a geologist who reflects on the geological history of Europe (the only region well known) will admit that it has been many times depressed, raised and left stationary.
The more exact the investigation," says the geologist Quenstedt, "so much the more obscure is its beginning.
The geologist tells us that the order of the Rosaceae, which includes the apple, also the true grasses, and the Labiatae, or mints, were introduced only a short time previous to the appearance of man on the globe.
The geologistreasons thus: The more perfect organisms have not been discovered in the earlier strata; therefore, they do not exist in them.
There can be no doubt that to become a good Fossil Geologist a student must begin with living animals and plants.
By the same method, the geologist correlates and arranges the rocks not only of different parts of the same state, or of neighboring states, but even those of widely separated parts of North America and of different continents.
The biologist employs the identical methods used by the geologist in working out the past history of the earth's crust.
And the observations of the geologistprove that similar upward and downward movements of portions of the earth's crust have been going on through all geological times.
The same geologist notes the existence of 71 geysers in the area mentioned, though some of the number are only inferred to be spouting springs from the form of their basins and the character of the surrounding deposits.
The micro-geologist well knows how, in more modern deposits, the finest pores of fossils are filled, and that mineral matter in solution can penetrate the smallest openings that the microscope can detect.
When writing the dedication of this work, I little thought that the eminent geologist and valued friend to whom it gave me so much pleasure to tender this tribute of respect, would have passed away before its publication.
An eminent German geologist has characterized the discovery of fossils in the Laurentian rocks of Canada as "the opening of a new era in geological science.
Indeed, independently of Eozoon, it is impossible that any geologist who has studied the manner in which this mineral is associated with the Laurentian limestones could believe it to have been formed in any other way.
When the geologist does visit these parts he must make a special bargain with his camel-men, not based on his apparent, present, visible baggage, but upon what it may expand to.
I used once to sigh and groan over not having brought a geologist with us, but I was wiser by that time.
Shaler received the appointment of State Geologist of Kentucky.
Wilber, ex-State Geologist of Illinois, gives the class the benefit of his large and choice collection of specimens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geologist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
