geologic interpretation

Смотреть что такое "geologic interpretation" в других словарях:

• Framework interpretation (Genesis) — This article focuses on the views of certain Christian commentators and theologians. For a more general account of the topic, see Creation according to Genesis. For a canvass of some of the Jewish approaches, see Jewish views on evolution. The… …   Wikipedia

• photographic interpretation — noun The identification, description and measurement of objects in photographs, especially in aerial photographs, for geologic, cartographic or military purposes …   Wiktionary

• Olympic-Wallowa Lineament — Location of the Olympic Wallowa Lineament. Is the OWL an optical illusion? The Olympic Wallowa lineament (OWL) – first reported by cartographer Erwin Raisz in 1945 [1] on a relief map of the continental United States – is a physiographic feature… …   Wikipedia

• Borealis quadrangle — The Borealis quadrangle is a quadrangle on Mercury surrounding the north pole down to 65° latitude (see also: geography of Mars).It contains the Goethe Basin, whose diameter of at least convert|400|km|abbr=on makes it the sixth largest impact… …   Wikipedia

• Michelangelo quadrangle — The Michelangelo quadrangle is in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mercury, where the imaged part is heavily cratered terrain that has been strongly influenced by the presence of multiring basins. At least four such basins, now nearly… …   Wikipedia

• Kuiper quadrangle — The Kuiper quadrangle, located in a heavily cratered region of Mercury, includes the young, 55 km diameter crater Kuiper (11° S., 31.5° ), which has the highest albedo recorded on the planet (Hapke and others, 1975), and the small crater Hun Kal… …   Wikipedia

• photogeology — “+ noun Etymology: phot + geology : the geologic interpretation of aerial photographs; especially : the identification of geologic structures by studying such photographs …   Useful english dictionary

• Focal mechanism — The focal mechanism of an earthquake describes the inelastic deformation in the source region that generates the seismic waves. In the case of a fault related event it refers to the orientation of the fault plane that slipped and the slip vector… …   Wikipedia

• Earth Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Geology and Geochemistry       The theme of the 33rd International Geological Congress, which was held in Norway in August 2008, was “Earth System Science: Foundation for Sustainable Development.” It was attended by nearly… …   Universalium

• geochronology — geochronologic /jee oh kron l oj ik/, geochronological, adj. geochronologist, n. /jee oh kreuh nol euh jee/, n. the chronology of the earth, as based on both absolute and relative methods of age determination. [1890 95; GEO + CHRONOLOGY] * * *… …   Universalium

• United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …   Universalium