Earth science

Earth science

Any of several geological sciences that are concerned with the earth, its origins, and all of its various structures and physical forms and phenomena.

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kame terrace

Earth science; Geology

Stratified drift deposited between wasting glacier and adjacent valley wall. Stands as a terrace when glacier melts.

kettle

Earth science; Geology

Depression in ground surface formed by the melting of a block of glacier ice buried or partially buried by drift.

komatiite

Earth science; Geology

An ultramafic rock with a non-cumulate texture, presumed to be extrusive.

laccolith

Earth science; Geology

A concordant igneous intrusion with a flat floor and a convex upper surface, usually less than 8 km across and from a few meters to a few hundred meters thick at its thickest ...