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This provides geologic keyword-based access to information within InfoBank.
D:
dam
Darwin
data
data catalog
data dictionary
data distribution policy
data format
data type
database
date
datum
David Sigurdson
David Stevenson
day
Death Valley
debris flow
debris slide
decay
Dee Trent
deep water
deep-sea sediment
deep-sea trench
deer
definition
deforesting
deformation
degradation
delta
dendritic pattern
density
deposit
deposition
depositional environment
depression
depth
descipline
desert
desert dust
desert pavement
desert playa
desert varnish
desertification
desiccation
desiduous tree
detachment fault
detritus
Devils Postpile
Devon
Devonian
diamond
diatom
diatomite
dictionary
differentiation
digitial data
dike
dinoclagellate
dinosaur
diorite
dip
dip-slip fault
dire wolf
directed stress
direction
directivity
discharge
disconformity
disintegration
displacement
dissolution
dissolved load
distance
distortion
distortion rate
distributary
diurnal variation
divergent plate
divergent plate boundary
divergent plate margin
DNA
document
dome
Don L. Anderson
Donald MacKenzie
Douglas D. Rhodes
Douglas M. Morton
downslope
downstream
dowser
drainage
drainage basin
drainage pattern
draught
dredge
drill core
drilling
drought
drumlin
Drummand Matthews
dry land
Duane Hamann
duck billed platypus
dune
duplex pendulum
duration
dust
dust bowl
dust storm
dynamic system
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