Both Uses of
geology
in
Bleak House
- "People objected to Professor Dingo when we were staying in the north of Devon after our marriage," said Mrs. Badger, "that he disfigured some of the houses and other buildings by chipping off fragments of those edifices with his little geological hammer.†
Chpt 16-18
- In the active superintendence of this young person, Judy Smallweed appears to attain a perfectly geological age and to date from the remotest periods.†
Chpt 19-21 *
Definition:
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(geology) a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
or more rarely:
the rocks, minerals, and rock formations of an area