Search SEDIS
| Data sets | Publications | Expeditions | Thesaurus |
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| floatstone | |
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| RT | carbonate rocks |
| opal | |
| quartz | |
| rudstone | |
| SN | As of 1993, use opal for the mineral. Added to Thesaurus in 1993. |
| flocculation | |
|---|---|
| RT | clay mineralogy |
| colloidal materials | |
| geochemistry | |
| processes | |
| suspended materials | |
| Floian | |
|---|---|
| BT | Chronostratigraphic Units |
| .Phanerozoic | |
| ..Paleozoic | |
| ...Ordovician | |
| ....Lower Ordovician | |
| .....Floian | |
| flokite | |
|---|---|
| USE | mordenite |
| flood basalts | |
|---|---|
| BT | igneous rocks |
| .volcanic rocks | |
| ..basalts | |
| ...flood basalts | |
| UF | plateau basalts |
| RT | basalt flows |
| lava flows | |
| flood plains | |
|---|---|
| USE | floodplains |
| flood tuff | |
|---|---|
| USE | ignimbrite |
| floodplains | |
|---|---|
| BT | fluvial features |
| .floodplains | |
| UF | flood plains |
| RT | plains |
| geomorphology | |
| alluvium | |
| overbank sediments | |
| meanders | |
| rivers | |
| terraces | |
| levees | |
| floods | |
| riparian environment | |
| flora | |
|---|---|
| SN | As of 1981, no longer a valid term for GeoRef. For stratigraphy, see assemblages; for environmental studies, see vegetation. |
| flora studies | |
|---|---|
| USE | floral studies |
| floral list | |
|---|---|
| RT | faunal list |
| floral provinces | |
|---|---|
| UF | provinces, floral |
| RT | biotopes |
| biogeography | |
| assemblages | |
| faunal provinces | |
| paleobotany | |
| land bridges | |
| floral studies | |
|---|---|
| UF | flora studies |
| studies, floral | |
| RT | palynomorphs |
| Plantae | |
| microorganisms | |
| fossils | |
| Lagerstatten | |
| biota | |
| thermophilic taxa | |
| paleobotany | |
| faunal studies | |
| living taxa | |
| vegetation | |
| SN | May be used for many classes, orders, or genera, or when an appropriate systematic term is not available. |
| Florence County South Carolina | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .South Carolina | |
| ..Florence County South Carolina | |
| SN | E central South Carolina. |
| Florence County Wisconsin | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .Wisconsin | |
| ..Florence County Wisconsin | |
| SN | Extreme NE Wisconsin. |
| Florence Italy | |
|---|---|
| BT | Europe |
| .Southern Europe | |
| ..Italy | |
| ...Tuscany Italy | |
| ....Florence Italy | |
| UF | Firenze Italy |
| SN | Province and city in E central Tuscany. |
| Florence Rise | |
|---|---|
| BT | Mediterranean Sea |
| .East Mediterranean | |
| ..Florence Rise | |
| RT | Leg 42A |
| DSDP Site 375 | |
| DSDP Site 376 | |
| SN | Ridge in the Mediterranean Sea. A submarine extension of the Cyprus Arc. Partially separates the Antalya Basin to the N from the Levantine Basin to the S. Added to Thesaurus in 1981. |
| florencite | |
|---|---|
| BT | phosphates |
| .florencite | |
| Flores Sea earthquake 1996 | |
|---|---|
| BT | earthquakes |
| .Flores Sea earthquake 1996 | |
| RT | Indonesia |
| Indonesian Seas | |
| SN | Between Celebes and Flores islands, Indonesia. |
| Florida Bay | |
|---|---|
| BT | Atlantic Ocean |
| .North Atlantic | |
| ..Gulf of Mexico | |
| ...Florida Bay | |
| SN | Body of water between S tip of Florida and Florida Keys. |
| Florida Escarpment | |
|---|---|
| BT | Atlantic Ocean |
| .North Atlantic | |
| ..Gulf of Mexico | |
| ...Florida Escarpment | |
| RT | Florida |
| SN | Off W Florida shelf in NE Gulf of Mexico Basin. Added to Thesaurus in 1995. |
| Florida Keys | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .Florida | |
| ..Florida Keys | |
| NT | Big Pine Key |
| Key Largo | |
| RT | Atlantic Ocean Islands |
| Monroe County Florida | |
| Coupon Bight | |
| Dade County Florida | |
| SN | 150 mile chain of coral limestone islands extending SW off S tip of Florida. Mainly in Monroe County. Indexed with counties as applicable. |
| Florida Mountains | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .New Mexico | |
| ..Luna County New Mexico | |
| ...Florida Mountains | |
| SN | SW New Mexico. |
| Florida Panhandle | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .Florida | |
| ..Florida Panhandle | |
| SN | NW Florida. Before 1993, also search Panhandle AND Florida. Indexed with counties as applicable. Added to Thesaurus in 1993. |
| Florida Strait | |
|---|---|
| USE | Straits of Florida |
| Florida Straits | |
|---|---|
| USE | Straits of Florida |
| Floridan Aquifer | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .Floridan Aquifer | |
| RT | Eocene |
| South Carolina | |
| Alabama | |
| Florida | |
| Georgia | |
| Ocala Group | |
| Hawthorn Formation | |
| Southwest Florida Water Management District | |
| SN | Underlies Florida and parts of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Below the confining bed consists from top to bottom, of limestone in the bottom part of the Hawthorn Formation and limestone, dolomite, and dolomitic limestone in formations of Eocene ag |
| Florinites | |
|---|---|
| BT | palynomorphs |
| .miospores | |
| ..Florinites | |
| RT | microfossils |
| Angiospermae | |
| SN | Indexed with microfossils if applicable. |
| Florissant Lake Beds | |
|---|---|
| BT | Chronostratigraphic Units |
| .Phanerozoic | |
| ..Cenozoic | |
| ...Paleogene | |
| ....Oligocene | |
| .....Florissant Lake Beds | |
| RT | Colorado |
| SN | Denver Basin, central Colorado. |
| flotation | |
|---|---|
| RT | beneficiation |
| buoyancy | |
| Flournoy Formation | |
|---|---|
| BT | Chronostratigraphic Units |
| .Phanerozoic | |
| ..Cenozoic | |
| ...Paleogene | |
| ....Eocene | |
| .....Flournoy Formation | |
| RT | Oregon |
| SN | SW Oregon. Added to Thesaurus in 1985. |
| flow | |
|---|---|
| SN | As of 1981, no longer a valid term for GeoRef. Before 1981, used to indicate the mechanics of deformation. Before 1978, also used to indicate style of structure. Before 1977, also related to movement of ground water and surface water. See critical flow, f |
| flow (volcanic) | |
|---|---|
| USE | lava flows |
| flow cleavage | |
|---|---|
| BT | foliation |
| .flow cleavage | |
| RT | structural analysis |
| axial-plane structures | |
| cleavage | |
| schistosity | |
| slaty cleavage | |
| compression | |
| flow folds | |
|---|---|
| BT | folds |
| .flow folds | |
| UF | flowage fold |
| SN | Before 1978, also search flow AND folds. |
| flow lines | |
|---|---|
| UF | lines, flow |
| RT | deformation |
| flow texture | |
| lineation | |
| rheology | |
| plastic flow | |
| flow mechanism | |
|---|---|
| RT | lava |
| lava flows | |
| magma transport | |
| mechanism | |
| rheology | |
| viscosity | |
| flow meters | |
|---|---|
| USE | flowmeters |
| flow regime | |
|---|---|
| SN | As of 1981, no longer a valid term for GeoRef. |
| flow structures | |
|---|---|
| BT | sedimentary structures |
| .soft sediment deformation | |
| ..flow structures | |
| RT | sedimentation |
| Bouma sequence | |
| turbidity current structures | |
| SN | Also index turbidity current structures if applicable. |
| flow texture | |
|---|---|
| BT | textures |
| .flow texture | |
| UF | fluidal texture |
| fluxion texture | |
| rhyotaxitic texture | |
| RT | volcanism |
| migmatites | |
| diapirs | |
| ash flows | |
| pyroclastic flows | |
| mass movements | |
| soft sediment deformation | |
| basalt flows | |
| lava flows | |
| petrography | |
| flow lines | |
| SN | Use only for igneous rocks. Added to Thesaurus in 1995. |
| flowage fold | |
|---|---|
| USE | flow folds |
| Flower Garden Banks | |
|---|---|
| USE | Garden Banks |
| flowers | |
|---|---|
| RT | fossils |
| leaves | |
| paleobotany | |
| Plantae | |
| roots | |
| vegetation | |
| SN | Added to Thesaurus in 1989. |
| flowmeters | |
|---|---|
| UF | flow meters |
| RT | instruments |
| hydrogeology | |
| hydrology | |
| currents | |
| hydrodynamics | |
| discharge | |
| fluid dynamics | |
| minipermeameters | |
| permeameters | |
| SN | Added to Thesaurus in 1985. |
| flows | |
|---|---|
| RT | ash flows |
| debris flows | |
| effusion | |
| gravity flows | |
| hydraulics | |
| lava flows | |
| mass movements | |
| pyroclastic surges | |
| streamflow | |
| velocity | |
| SN | When discussing lava, use lava flows. |
| flowstone | |
|---|---|
| USE | speleothems |
| Floyd County Georgia | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .Georgia | |
| ..Floyd County Georgia | |
| SN | NW Georgia. |
| Floyd County Indiana | |
|---|---|
| BT | Indiana |
| .Floyd County Indiana | |
| SN | S Indiana. |
| Floyd County Iowa | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .Iowa | |
| ..Floyd County Iowa | |
| SN | N Iowa. |
| Floyd County Kentucky | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .Kentucky | |
| ..Floyd County Kentucky | |
| SN | E Kentucky. |
| Floyd County Texas | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .Texas | |
| ..Floyd County Texas | |
| SN | NW Texas. |
| Floyd County Virginia | |
|---|---|
| BT | United States |
| .Virginia | |
| ..Floyd County Virginia | |
| SN | SW Virginia. |