geologize

verb

1. To study the geology of a location in the field.

   “...those many valuable writers, who have unwisely lent their science to uphold and propagate the vicious doctrine of a chaotic geogeny, may geologize with full security...”

   “We travel here in an extraordinary manner, but we cannot geologize by steam-boats.”

   “We continued northwards in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologize.”

   “There was a certain wood, which, by rising at early morn, and taking the cheap train, I could reach at eleven in the morning. Here I would botanize or geologize at my will.”

   “...and ploughmen will botanize or geologize on their way home from their daily toil...”