economic geology

1. 1.

   the branch of geology that deals with economically valuable geological materials

   Broadergeology

   Narrowerpetroleum geologymining geology

Questions about economic geology

What does economic geology mean?

economic geology means "the branch of geology that deals with economically valuable geological materials".

Is economic geology a common word?

economic geology is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.