| CROMARTY | Birthplace of Scottish geologist Hugh Miller (8) |
| BLANTYRE | Birthplace of Scottish explorer David Livingstone (8) |
| LYELL | Sir Charles --, Scottish geologist (1797-1875) (5) |
| ISOSTASY | One getting letters of distress to stay away interests the geologist, whose crust is in the balance (8) |
| BUCKLAND | Where deer might have roamed according to an old English geologist (8) |
| MERCALLI | Italian geologist reviewed millrace |
| LAURASIA | Ancient landmass in the Northern Hemisphere that included North America, Europe, and Asia (except peninsular India). Its existence was proposed by Alexander Du Toit, a South African geologist, in Our |
| HOLOCENE | Little dip seen there is said to be recent, according to geologists |
| MILLER | Surname of Hugh, 19th-century Cromarty-born geologist (6) |
| RICHTERSCALE | Measures impact of break-up of American geologist and lawyer on the beer (7,5) |
| AGASSIZ | Louis -, Switzerlandborn geologist; founder in 1859 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University (7) |
| NICOLAUSSTENO | Danish geologist who first realised that fossils are the remains of ancient living organisms (8,5) |
| ADAMSEDGWICK | 19th-century English geologist who proposed and named the Cambrian period, part of the Palaeozoic era (4,8) |
| FLESHEATINGLISARD | Geological Survey of Canada geologist Joseph Burr Tyrrell's prehistoric discovery 'Albertosaurus Sarcophagus' of 1884 means "___-___ ___ from Alberta" |
| CHARLESLYELL | In 1830-33, this geologist publishes Principles of Geology, followed in 1838 by Elements of Geology, in which he demonstrates that the processes that changed the earth in the past are continuing. What |
| IGLOO | Geologist gets out of the northern dwelling (5) |
| HORST | Raised block of the earth's crust, to a geologist |
| ROCKON | Apt cry of encouragement for a geologist? |
| EDITING | Changing tide turned in front of geologist (7) |
| BAND | Focus of a geologist or music reviewer |
