Illustration: At a safe roadside rock exposure in rural Japan, a field geologist crouches beside several clearly different layers: fine banded stone, a pebbly bed, and a darker fractured layer. A small fault offsets the bands, revealing how the ground is structured.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

地ち質しつ

chishitsu

geological features

Example sentences

  1. そうした決定けっていは、今度こんどは、丘おかそのものの地質ちしつ的構造てきこうぞうに影響えいきょうされる。

    That decision, in turn, was affected by the geological structure of the hill itself.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 地質ちしつ学者がくしゃが私わたしたちの農場のうじょうで石油せきゆの実地調査じっちちょうさを行おこなった。

    The geologists explored for oil on our farm.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. なお上記場所じょうきばしょについての異説いせつの坂さかも舗装前ほそうまえは同様どうようの地質ちしつであった。

    Soil found at other slopes mentioned above is similar in composition as to the description above, before the roads were paved.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 地質

  • 地ground; earthOnチ・ジ
  • 質substance; qualityOnシツ・シチ・チKunたち・ただす・もと

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