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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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black smoker
Earth science; Geology
A vent on the seafloor from which hydrothermal fluids are emitted. Upon mixing with seawater and cooling, the fluids precipitate a cloud of fine-grained sulfide minerals that ...
blind valley
Earth science; Geology
A valley in karst that ends abruptly downstream at the point where its stream disappears underground as a sinking stream.
blowout
Earth science; Geology
A an irregular depression excavated by wind, usually in previously deposited blown sand.
bottomset bed
Earth science; Geology
Layer of fine sediment deposited in a body of standing water beyond the edge of a growing delta and which is eventually built over by the advancing delta. Similarly bottomset beds ...
boudinage
Earth science; Geology
A structure in which brittle beds bounded by more ductile ones have been divided into segments during metamorphism.
boulder train
Earth science; Geology
Clusters of erratics from same source, with some distinctive characteristic that makes their common source easily recognizable.
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