GEOLOGICAL WORDS OF LATIN AND GREEK ORIGIN

accretion

anticline

apophysis

aqueous

astrogeology

azoic

catastrophism

clastic

conglomerate

creep

datum

endomorphism

eon

epigenesis

epoch

erythrite

extravasate

fissile

folia

foliaceous

foliation

folium

formation

fossil

fracture

fragmental

geochronology

geochronometry

geodesy

geology

geoscience

glacial

homotaxis

hydrogeology

hydrothermal

hypabyssal

hypothermal

igneous

inclusion

isocline

lamina

macroevolution

magma

matrix

metamorphic

metamorphism

monocline

oligoclase

orthoclastic

peneplain

petrology

pisolite

pisolith

pluvial

quaternary

scoria

straticulate

stratum

stromatolite

subduction

supercontinent

superposition

synclinal

syncline

tectonic

tectonism

terrigenous

tertiary

troostite

ultrabasic

ultramafic

unconformable

unconformity

uniformitarianism

vesicle

vulcanian