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- rareuncountableThe scientific description of the waters of the Earth.
This is a brief review of past achievements, with suggested lines for future research in the field of hydrology in its broader sense, including hydrography, hydrognosy, hydrogeology, and hydrometeorology.
1939 February, “Recent work in agricultural science”, in Howard Lawton Knight, editor, Experment Station Record, volume 80, number 2, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 1532 more examples
Taking into consideration the time employed, the series of reports must prove of decided economic value. They form a positive contribution to the science of hydrognosy, or the phenomena of earth waters, besides illustrating the possibility of an extensive agricultural utilisation of such valuable supplies.
1891 January 9, “Notes: Artesian Wells in the United States”, in W. H. Maw, J. Dredge, editors, Engineering, volume 51, London: Offices for Advertisements and Publication, page 48I have a Doctorate in Hydrogeology, and the work I wrote some years ago on Hydrognosy has become a standard reference, so I was starting off with the proper knowledge, and I pointed to the great blue rocks and said: “Over by the rocks there, there’ll be waddies, gullies, cracks in the earth that’ll give us a little shade to rest up in for a while. If we’re lucky, we might even find a water hole.”
1972 June, Alan Caillou, Assault on Fellawi, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 11
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