Definition of "geologize" []

• To study geology or make geologic investigations. (verb-intransitive)

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• "Frank Debenham, T. Griffith T.ylor, T.yggve Gran and P.O. Robert Forde, the Second Western Party, set out from Cape Evans on December 14, 1911, to geologize in the area of Granite Harbour, and they built a rock shelter that they called Granite House, a name they took from a Jules Verne story."
• "We travelled about 4 hours on hard blue ice, and I was allowed to geologize the last hour down the two outer lines of boulders."
• "We continued travelling northward, in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologize."