noun

• An expert in or student of geology.

  ‘geologists have discovered sediments which contain fossilized single-celled organisms’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Geologists say the fields off the island contain 480 billion cubic meters of gas.’
  • ‘He is the geologist who has most eloquently laid out the argument for higher oil prices.’
  • ‘Those were the words of pioneering geologist John Wesley Powell, who led the first expedition through the Grand Canyon in 1873.’
  • ‘There is a growing belief among the geologists who study world oil supply that world oil production is soon headed into an irreversible decline.’
  • ‘The society's electronic library regularly publishes technical papers by field geologists.’
  • ‘Darwin corresponded with numerous biologists, breeders, and geologists in the course of gathering his material.’
  • ‘Depletion dynamics are, as the geologist Hubbert predicted decades ago, alive and well.’
  • ‘More than 1,400 scientists, engineers, and geologists from 50 countries downloaded the company's data and started their virtual exploration.’
  • ‘The core was recently extracted from beneath the floor of the crater so that geologists could examine the stratigraphic evidence.’
  • ‘Zircon is rarely present in large quantities in any one rock, making it what geologists call an accessory mineral.’