geophysicist
- n a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth
- The image is fuzzy, admits Robert Clayton, a geophysicist at the California Institute of Technology, "but I think everybody now agrees there is some kind of topography down there.
- At that point, Stanford University geophysicist Mark Zoback and his colleagues will finish casing the perimeter of their borehole with steel and start packing it with instruments.
- Geoffrey Ballard, the geophysicist, remembers his companion asking.