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# geologist

«geologist» in Mova's school dictionary: **a scientist who studies rocks, soil, minerals and how the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a geologist, geologists)

### meaning for a pupil

A geologist is a scientist who studies rocks, soil, minerals and how the Earth was formed and changes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geologist/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons about rocks, volcanoes, earthquakes, fossils; in jobs; geologists find oil, water or metals; related: geology (the subject).

### examples

- The geologist studied the layers in the cliff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geologist/#x1)
- Geologists can tell how old a rock is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geologist/#x2)
- My mum is a geologist who studies volcanoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geologist/#x3)
- A geologist found fossils in the shale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geologist/#x4)
- Geologists help find water underground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geologist/#x5)

### note

Countable. Not to be confused with a palaeontologist, who studies fossils of ancient life, or an archaeologist, who studies human history from objects.

### In the corpora

- [Geologists identify minerals by hardness, colour, lustre (shine), streak and how they break.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/11/)
- [The Earth is about 4.54 billion years old, a span so huge that geologists call it deep time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «geologist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/geologist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.