Noun

• S: (n) transgression, evildoing (the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle) "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father"
• S: (n) transgression (the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) geological phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth)
• S: (n) earthquake, quake, temblor, seism (shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity)
• S: (n) endogeny (a geological phenomenon below the surface of the earth)
• S: (n) alluvial fan, alluvial cone (a fan-shaped deposit where a fast flowing stream flattens out)
• S: (n) catastrophe, cataclysm (a sudden violent change in the earth's surface)
• S: (n) continental drift (the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics))
• S: (n) deposit, sedimentation, alluviation (the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating)
• S: (n) flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion (the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land) "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
• S: (n) frost heave, frost heaving (upthrust of ground or pavement caused by the freezing of moist soil)
• S: (n) transgression (the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata)
• S: (n) volcanism (the phenomena associated with volcanic activity)
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) transgression (the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit)