GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENON

Pronunciation (US):

• GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENON (noun)
  The noun GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENON has 1 sense:

1. a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth

  Familiarity information: GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENON used as a noun is very rare.

• GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENON (noun)

Meaning:

A natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("geological phenomenon" is a kind of...):

natural phenomenon (all phenomena that are not artificial)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geological phenomenon"):

earthquake; quake; seism; temblor (shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity)

transgression (the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata)

frost heave; frost heaving (upthrust of ground or pavement caused by the freezing of moist soil)

alluvion; deluge; flood; inundation (the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land)

alluviation; deposit; sedimentation (the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating)

continental drift (the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics))

cataclysm; catastrophe (a sudden violent change in the earth's surface)

alluvial cone; alluvial fan (a fan-shaped deposit where a fast flowing stream flattens out)

endogeny (a geological phenomenon below the surface of the earth)

volcanism (the phenomena associated with volcanic activity)