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Geographic place names and Geologic terms
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June 2024 Geo Tour
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- AUGEN (Flattened oval or lens-shaped mineral grains )
- BERYL
- BRASH (A mass or heap of fragments; applied to loose broken rock )
- BUTTE
- CHERT (A form of amorphous silica found in several varieties eg flint)
- CLAST
- CLINT (A hard or flinty rock; a hard rock projecting on the side of a hill or river)
- DRUSE (incrustation of crystals)
- ELVAN ( in Cornwall intrusive rocks of igneous origin, so hard as to resist the pick)
- ESKER (in Ireland the elongated and often flat-topped mounds of post-glacial gravel which occur abundantly in the greater river-valleys)
- GLINT (An escarpment of almost horizontal strata formed as a result of denudation of the adjacent lower rocks
- GRIKE (A crack or slit in rock, a ravine in a hillside).
- KARST(formed by dissolution of soluble rocks)
- LAHAR (A mud-flow of volcanic ash mixed with water)
- LAPIS
- LOESS (A deposit of fine yellowish-grey loam
- OCHRE (clays colored with iron oxide)
- ONLAP (successively wedge-shaped younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks
- PLATY (flaky layers of soil or minerals)
- ROACH (A bed of white limestone in the upper Jurassic strata of southern England; a variety of Portland stone obtained from this bed)
- SALSE (A mud volcano)
- SCARP (escarpment a long steep SLOPE
- SCREE (loose stones covering a SLOPE )
- SHALE
- SILEX (silica esp. quartz or flint)
- SKARN (coarse-grained metamorphic rocks that form by replacement of carbonate-bearing rocks
- TALUS (steep slopes made of rock fragments
- TRASS (= light-coloured variety of volcanic ash)
- VARVE (A pair of thin layers of clay and silt of contrasting colour and texture which represent the deposit of a single year)
- WACKE (Any of various sandstones and similar rocks containing (esp. basaltic) rock and mineral fragments of different sizes in a clayey matrix)
Geographic Components
ARBOR
, BUTTE
, COAST
, COSTA
, DALLE
, FORTE
, ISLES
, MOUNT
, MOUTH
, NORTH
, RIVER
, SAINT
, SOUTH
, VILLE
LEONE
Geographic Features or Regions
ALVAR
FALLS
DELLA
FALLS
MOUNT
BAKER
SNAKE
RIVER
BASIN
GORGE
GULLY
DELTA
HEATH
KARST
(A kind of topography of which the Slovenian Karst is typical, found in areas of readily dissolved rock (usually limestone)KNICK
POINT
(A break of slope in a river profile, esp. one where a new curve of erosion arising from rejuvenation intersects an earlier curve)OASIS
PALSA
(A landform of subarctic regions, consisting of a mound or ridge of peat covered with vegetation and containing a core of permanently frozen peat)PAMPA
PLAIN
PARMA
(A chain of broad, low, dome-shaped formations running parallel to the main axis of a line of fold mountains)PINGO
(A broad conical or dome-shaped mound formed in regions with thin or discontinuous permafrost, consisting of a layer of soil over a large core of ice)PLUCK
SIDES
(The jagged lee (or downstream) side of a roche moutonnée from which rock has been plucked by a glacier)POLJE
(An enclosed plain in a karstic region (esp. in Slovenia) that is larger than an uvala, usually having steep enclosing walls)PONOR
(In a karstic region: a steep natural shaft which emerges at the surface of the ground, frequently as a swallow hole)RANGE
RIDGE
ROCHE
SEISM
SELVA
(A tract of densely wooded country lying in the basin of the river Amazon)SERIR
(In the Sahara Desert, esp. in Libya and Tunisia: a flat area of desert strewn with rounded pebbles and boulders)SOMMA
(A remnant of an older volcanic cone which partly or wholly encircles a younger cone; the rim of a caldera)STOPE
(an excavation in a mine or quarry in the shape of a notch or step)TOWER
KARST
(A type of karst characterized by isolated steep-sided hills)TAIGA
UVALA
(A depression in the ground surface occurring in karstic regions)
Geological Features
ADOBE
AGATE
AMBER
AUGEN
(Flattened oval or lens-shaped mineral grains )BERYL
BRASH
(A mass or heap of fragments; applied to loose broken rock )BUTTE
CHERT
(A form of amorphous silica found in several varieties eg flint)CLAST
CLINT
(A hard or flinty rock; a hard rock projecting on the side of a hill or river)CORAL
ATOLL
CRUST
DRUSE
(incrustation of crystals)ELVAN
( in Cornwall intrusive rocks of igneous origin, so hard as to resist the pick)ESKER
(in Ireland the elongated and often flat-topped mounds of post-glacial gravel which occur abundantly in the greater river-valleys)EPOCH
FAULT
(seismology)FLAKY
(like mica)FLINT
GEEST
GEODE
GLINT
(An escarpment of almost horizontal strata formed as a result of denudation of the adjacent lower rocks)GRAIN
GRIKE
(A crack or slit in rock, a ravine in a hillside).HORST
KARST
(formed by dissolution of soluble rocks)LAHAR
(A mud-flow of volcanic ash mixed with water)LAPIS
1.AZURE
LAYER
LOESS
(A deposit of fine yellowish-grey loam )MAGMA
METAL
OCEAN
1.RIDGE
OCHRE
(clays colored with iron oxide)ONLAP
(successively wedge-shaped younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface cut in older rocks)PEARL
PLATY
(flaky layers of soil or minerals)ROACH
(A bed of white limestone in the upper Jurassic strata of southern England; a variety of Portland stone obtained from this bed)ROCKY
SALSE
(A mud volcano)SCARP
(escarpment a long steepSLOPE
SCREE
(loose stones covering aSLOPE
)SHALE
SHEAR
1.PLANE
SILEX
(silica esp. quartz or flint)SKARN
(coarse-grained metamorphic rocks that form by replacement of carbonate-bearing rocks)SLIDE
SLOPE
STONE
TALUS
(steep slopes made of rock fragments)TOPAZ
TRASS
(= light-coloured variety of volcanic ash)VARVE
(A pair of thin layers of clay and silt of contrasting colour and texture which represent the deposit of a single year)WACKE
(Any of various sandstones and similar rocks containing (esp. basaltic) rock and mineral fragments of different sizes in a clayey matrix)
Exact Place Names
Maybe subdivide into countries vs cities/towns?
ARBOR
(MO, NE, TX alsoARBOR
GROVE
)ARLES
ASCOT
ASPEN
BATON
ROUGE
BORNE
MOUTH
(Bournemouth if Webster had been at it)BOCCA
(Bolivia)BOWIE
CABIN
CAPRI
CHEVY CHASE
(Maryland)CHILE
CHINA
CHINO
CONGO
@Shaun 1 March 2025 censoredCOSTA
(West Virginia)COSTA
,HAUTE
CORSE
(Costa, town in Haute Corse, Corsica)DELLA
(Ethiopia)DULCE
GENOA
GLOBE
(Arizona)INDIA
IVORY
COAST
JAFFA
JAPAN
MECCA
MOUNT
ANGEL
(Oregon)NEVIS
OLIVA
PARIS
PARMA
SPAIN
@ShawnS'PORE
(Singapore)TANNA
(Vanuatu)TEXAS
TOURS
@Shaun's Trip Around the 50 States
- March-April 2024*
FLORA
(Indiana)PEACH
Bottom (Pennsylvania)DRUMS
(Pennsylvania)NITRO
Bottom (W. VirginiaWALDO
(Ohio)XENIA
(Ohio)ROMEO
(Michigan)FLORA
(Indiana)HENRY
(Tennessee)HAZEL
(Kentucky)FOLEY
(Alabama)PEARL
(MIss.RONDO
(Ark)SAINT CLAIR
(MIssouri)STOUT
(Iowa)HARDY
(Iowa)GRAND And LIttle CHUTE
(WIsconsin)VESTA
(MInnesota)GRAND FORKS
(South Dakota)BLACK HILLS
(South Dakota)WHITE HILLS
(South Dakota)WAHOO
(Nebraska)FLINT HILLS
(Kansas)SEDAN
(Kansas)PERRY MASON
(Oklahoma)SUGAR LANDS
(Texas)Los LUNAS
(New Mexico)RIFLE
(Colorado)BASIN
(Wyoming)TERRY
(Montana)MILES
(Montana)BLUFF
(Montana)HATCH
(Montana)MELBA
(Idaho)GLOBE
(Arizona)QUEEN CREEK
(Arizona)CHINO
(California)CHICO
(California)VEGAS
(Nevada) a VEGA is a grassy plain or valley in Spain or Spanish AmericaROGUE RIVER
(Oregon)ARIEL
(Washington)HOMER
(Alaska)LANAI
(Hawaii)
Approximate Names & Nicknames
AKING
(Aiken, South Carolina)CAIRN
(s)CHARM
CIty = (Baltimore, MD)DRINK
WATER
(Saskatchewan)FORTE
WORTH
MAGIC city
(Birmingham, Ala.)MOTOR
(city:CITEE
?)CLEVE
LANDS
QUEEN
CITEE
SAULT
SAINT
MARIA
orMARRY
(Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Michigan)SPANE
STOKE
(on Trent)STUMP
TOWNS
- (Vir)
GINNY
(as in:CARRY
meBACKS
STEWS
OLIVE
VERGE
GINNY
;)