Geology and Oceanography

• altitude

• artesian well

• asthenosphere

• astrobleme

• avalanche

• badlands

• basalt

• batholith

• bayou

• beach

• bight

• bog

• bore

• boulder

• breakwater

• brownstone

• butte

• Butte (city)

• Cambrian period

• Carboniferous period

• catastrophism

• catchment area

• cave

• Cenozoic era

• Census of Marine Life

• chalk

• Challenger expedition

• china clay

• clay

• coast

• concretion

• conglomerate (geology)

• continent

• continental drift

• continental shelf

• coral reefs

• crater

• Cretaceous period

• crevasse

• cuesta

• Deep Sea Drilling Project

• delta

• desert

• Devonian period

• drift

• drumlin

• dune

• earth (geology)

• earthquake

• echo sounder

• elevation

• Eocene epoch

• epoch

• erosion

• escarpment

• esker

• estuary

• fault

• fjord

• flint

• flood

• floodplain

• fold

• ford

• fullers earth

• geochemistry

• geode

• geodesy

• geologic timescale

• Geologic Timescale (table)

• geology

• geomorphology

• geophysics

• geyser

• glacial periods

• glacier

• gneiss

• granite

• gravel

• hardpan

• hogback

• Holocene epoch

• hot spring

• Hot Springs

• hydrothermal vent

• Ice Age

• iceberg

• igneous rock

• International Geophysical Year

• island

• isthmus

• joint (geology)

• Jurassic period

• kame

• kettle

• kimberlite

• lake

• landslide

• lava

• lithosphere

• magma

• magnetic pole

• mantle

• marble

• Mercalli scale

• mesa

• Mesa (city)

• Mesozoic era

• metamorphic rocks

• metamorphism

• mid-ocean ridge

• Miocene epoch

• moraine

• mountain

• New Red Sandstone

• ocean

• oceanography

• Old Red Sandstone

• Oligocene epoch

• Ordovician period

• paleontology

• Paleozoic era

• Pangaea

• pass

• period

• permafrost

• Permian period

• petrology

• piedmont

• plain

• plate tectonics

• plateau

• Pleistocene epoch

• Pliocene epoch

• porphyry

• Porphyry (Greek scholar)

• pothole

• Precambrian era

• Project Mohole

• pumice

• quartzite

• Quaternary period

• range

• rhyolite

• Richter scale

• rift valley

• river

• rock

• sand

• sandstone

• schist

• sea

• sea level

• seafloor spreading

• sediment

• sedimentary rock

• seismology

• shale

• silt

• Silurian period

• slate

• snow line

• soapstone

• speleology

• spring

• stalactite and stalagmite

• stratification

• stratigraphy

• subduction zone

• subsidence

• syenite

• talus

• tertiary

• Tertiary period

• tidal wave

• tide

• Triassic period

• tsunami

• turbidity current

• uniformitarianism

• varve

• volcano

• water table

• waterfall

• watershed

• waterway

• wave

• weathering

• whirlpool