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USGS CMG InfoBank: Geology School Keywords -- B
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Keyword First Letter:
A
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This provides geologic keyword-based access to information within InfoBank.
B:
B horizon
backarc
bacteria
Bahamas
Bakersfield
Bangladesh
bank
bar
basal slip
basalt
base
base level
basement
basin
Basin and Range
basin margin
batholith
bathymetry
Baton Rouge
bauxite
bay
Bay Area
beach
bed
bed load
bedding
bedding plane
bedrock
Benioff zone
benthic
bergschrund
Berkeley
Bible
biochemistry
biologic sedimentary rock
biological activity
biology
biota
biotite
bird
bison
black smoker
blind thrust fault
block
blowout
blue schist
blue schist facies
blue-green algae
Bob McJones
body wave
boiling
Bolivia
bone
botany
Bouguer gravity
boulder
boundary layer
Bowen's Reaction Series
box corer
brachiopod
braided stream
Brazil
breakwater
Brian Edwards
brick
brine
brittle-ductile boundary
building
building code
building material
burial
burrow
Byron Loubert
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