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A detailed and systematic study of the topography, geology, and mineral resources of an area or country.
‘We are currently planning a proper geological survey of as many magnetic mountains as possible.’
‘He was appointed to undertake a geological survey of Otago and was asked to purchase a set of typical mineral specimens before he left London.’
‘A final part of this report provides an update of where federal and provincial geological surveys are heading over the next decade.’
‘Repeated efforts in the latter half of the nineteenth century to mount a geological survey in the colony fell foul of the prevailing popular scepticism towards geologists and the utility of their work.’
‘The position of the Missouri an-Virgilian boundary is less well defined in the Midcontinent region due to differing definitions by the various state geological surveys.’
‘The early interests revolved around geological surveys and economic evaluations of peat resources in the country.’
‘Canadian Jim McCannell said it had been one of the biggest disappointments of his working life that the disused mines had not re-opened after he conducted a geological survey at the site between 1956-1961.’
‘Fred said: ‘They've already got a geological survey and there's no safety problem with it as far as I'm concerned.’’
‘Scientific cruises around the Canary Islands, together with detailed geological surveys on land, have revealed a picture very similar to that painted for Hawaii.’
‘I demand a special prosecutor to investigate why our president was not performing geological surveys of New Orleans in the days before hurricane struck.’
‘The engineer was William Smith, later known as the Father of British Geology for giving us the first geological survey of the country.’
‘As the twenty-first century began, geological surveys were operating in every state, as well as at the federal level, a permanent but constantly changing feature of America's scientific landscape.’
‘The Ministry, however, continues a series of geological surveys at the proposed site for the dam.’
‘No one probably knows what a full geological survey of Saudi Arabia will produce there.’
‘The council's planning committee - who had delayed a decision for a geological survey to be carried out - will consider the application later this week, with planning officers recommending approval.’
‘It is a different matter sending a few vehicles up there for a geological survey.’
‘In 1968, a U.N. geological survey raised the possibility that the seabed in the area might contain oil resources.’
‘Based on old geological surveys, reserves are estimated at some 100-130 billion barrels (about 11 per cent of the world total), second only to Saudi Arabia.’
‘Pearson spent his first two years conducting geological surveys to locate top-quality wine real estate.’
‘Fortey's book is a mosaic - part history, part travelogue and part geological survey - which moves us with him around the globe and into Earth's interior.’