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ECONOMIC GEOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does economic geology mean?
• ECONOMIC GEOLOGY (noun)
The noun ECONOMIC GEOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of geology that deals with economically valuable geological materials
Familiarity information: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of geology that deals with economically valuable geological materials
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("economic geology" is a kind of...):
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "economic geology"):
petroleum geology (the branch of economic geology that deals with the occurrence and exploitation of oil and gas fields)
mining geology (the branch of economic geology that deals with the applications of geology to mining)
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