telluric

adj

1. Pertaining to the Earth, earthly.

   “My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric.”

2. Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds.

noun

1. Synonym of telluric current.

   “Other projects in progress at CRPL involve the study of audiofrequency tellurics (current induced in the earth) and earth conductivity measurements using atmospherics.”