Definitions

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  • noun The study of alleged references to geological events in mythology.

Etymologies

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geo- +‎ mythology, coined in 1968 by Dorothy Vitaliano, a geologist at Indiana University.

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Examples

  • Powell may well have altered the nation's geomythology: K Street now joins Wall Street, Main Street and Skid Row as a distinctive American place.

    Boulevard Of Broken Promises 2008

  • The earth as a landscape painter, inscribing on itself a record of its own lived geomythology.

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • The earth as a landscape painter, inscribing on itself a record of its own lived geomythology.

    Pictorial Stones 2006

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