Synonyms:
geologist
Meaning: a specialist in geology
Usage examples
These high tides of enormously distant past ages constitute the denuding agent which the geologist required.
I don't suppose the maddest geologist under such circumstances would have studied the nature of the rocks that we were passing.
But still, to the eye of the geologist, all are of aqueous or sedimentary origin: roughly speaking, one may say they were all deposited at the bottom of some ancient sea.
The scientific work proper of these early explorers must be of a somewhat preliminary nature; in other words the most difficult and therefore ordinarily the most important pieces of first-hand exploration are precisely those where the scientific work of the accompanying cartographer, geologist, botanist, and zoologist must be furthest removed from finality.