Geological Survey

noun

1. U.S. Government.,  a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1879, that studies the nation's water and mineral resources, makes topographic surveys, and classifies and leases public lands.

2. (lowercase),  a systematic investigation of the geology of an area.

Geological Survey

noun

1. a government-sponsored organization working in the field of geology, such as the US Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of India, or the Institute of Geological Sciences (UK)

Example Sentences

“What that suggests is that the San Andreas earthquake happened very closely in time after the Cascadia earthquake,” said Jason R. Patton, engineering geologist with the California Geological Survey and a co-author of the study.

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Geological Survey, it was a single ice mass.

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Within weeks he had lined up the imposing British neoclassical colonial building housing the Geological Survey of India.

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Reform UK recently said it would encourage fracking in the UK if it were to win the next election, but the British Geological Survey has warned the potential for the technology to produce large amounts of oil and gas in the UK is likely to be limited.

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The California Geological Survey recently updated its tsunami hazard map — showing places in California that are at risk of tsunami inundation.

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