underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc
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Chatter mark
marks on a glaciated rock caused by the movement of a glacier
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A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments.(geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land; "the…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy la…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments.low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments.(geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right ove…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) the geological features of the earth
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) the matrix of fine-grained crystalline material in which larger crystals are embedded
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Landscapes and landforms, Geomorphology and geology.A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments.low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments.An ant.
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As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.A large mass or hill, as of ice.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an anima…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.Act of freezing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a ver…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: marks, glaciated, rock, caused, movement.
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