geologize

English

Alternative forms

geologise

Etymology

Verb

geologize (third-person singular simple present geologizes, present participle geologizing, simple past and past participle geologized)

To study the geology of a location in the field.
- 1824, The British Critic:
  ...those many valuable writers, who have unwisely lent their science to uphold and propagate the vicious doctrine of a chaotic geogeny, may geologize with full security...
- 1830, “Geology”, in American Quarterly Review:
  We travel here in an extraordinary manner, but we cannot geologize by steam-boats.
- 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
  We continued northwards in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologize.
- 1864, Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth‎^[1]:
  There was a certain wood, which, by rising at early morn, and taking the cheap train, I could reach at eleven in the morning. Here I would botanize or geologize at my will.
- 1869 March 27, The Spectator‎^[2]:
  ...and ploughmen will botanize or geologize on their way home from their daily toil...
- 2007, Charles Kingsley, Madame How and Lady Why: First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children, →ISBN:
  And between the intervals of eating fruit, we will geologize on the way home, with this little bit of paper to show us where we are.
- 2011, Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, →ISBN:
  Scott presumably foresaw this, which may explain his decision to geologize on the return trip once he lost priority at the pole.