Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Presenting both geological and chemical relations.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
geochemistry
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Examples
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"Is it from life (past or present) buried below the surface of Mars, or does it come from a more prosaic source such as geochemical processing of rocks?"
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"Is it from life (past or present) buried below the surface of Mars, or does it come from a more prosaic source such as geochemical processing of rocks?"
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"Is it from life (past or present) buried below the surface of Mars, or does it come from a more prosaic source such as geochemical processing of rocks?"
CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports 2009
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Studying the clays and understanding how Mars' early geochemical environment changed will help tell us whether or not there was life there and how it might have evolved.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Janice Bishop -- Mars: Back through the Looking Glass SETI Institute 2011
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But on Mars, the clay minerals in particular can tell us a lot about the geochemical environment 4 billion years ago; and that helps us understand what the planet was like then and if life might have evolved.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Janice Bishop -- Mars: Back through the Looking Glass SETI Institute 2011
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Careful examination and geochemical analysis could probably match the tools with their quarry source, a task for the future.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Careful examination and geochemical analysis could probably match the tools with their quarry source, a task for the future.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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As we study these images in more detail, we then try to find analogs of the mineral combinations or rock types in nature so that we can infer the geochemical environment on Mars.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Janice Bishop -- Mars: Back through the Looking Glass SETI Institute 2011
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Air capture is an industrial process for capturing CO2 from ambient air; it is one of an emerging set of technologies for CO2 removal that includes geological storage of biotic carbon and the acceleration of geochemical weathering.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream? 2010
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We are looking at these Martian images in order to identify the mineralogy, and the mineralogy tells us about the geochemical environment on the planet.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Janice Bishop -- Mars: Back through the Looking Glass SETI Institute 2011
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