Earth science Terms Beginning with F:
- F layer
- F region
- F1 layer
- F2 layer
- fabric
- fabric attractor (FA)
- fabric element
- fabric gradient
- fabric skeleton
- face
- facet
- faceted pebble
- faceted spur
- Facies
- facies map
- facsimile chart
- fahlband
- Fahlore
- Fahlunite
- Failure
- fair
- fair-weather cumulus
- Fairbairn lamellae
- Falkland Current
- fall line
- fall streaks
- fall wind
- fall-streak hole
- fallback
- falling tide
- fallout winds
- Fallstreifen
- false bedding
- false cirrus cloud
- false cleavage
- false drumlin
- false ice foot
- false oolith
- false shear band
- false warm sector
- Faluns
- fan
- fan fold
- fan-shaped delta
- fanglomerate
- farinaceous
- Farm-Out Arrangement
- farmer's year
- Fassaite
- fast ice
- fast ion
- fastest mile
- fathom
- fathom curve
- Fault
- fault basin
- fault block
- fault breccia
- fault cliff
- fault escarpment
- fault ledge
- fault line
- fault plane
- fault rock
- fault scarp
- fault separation
- fault strike
- fault system
- fault terrace
- fault throw
- fault trace
- fault trap
- fault vein
- fault wall
- fault zone
- Fault-Block Mountain
- fault-line scarp
- fault-trough lake
- faulting
- Faunal Succession
- faunizone
- fax chart
- fax map
- Fayalite
- feather
- Feather Alum
- feather joint
- Feather Ore
- feather vein
- feather-edge structure
- fecal pellets
- feeder
- feeder beach
- feeder current
- feeding ground
- Feitsui
- Feldspar
- feldspathization
- feldspathoid
- felsenmeer
- Felsic
- Felsite
- Felspar
- felty
- fen
- fen peat
- Fengite
- Ferberite
- Fergusonite
- ferricrete
- ferriferous
- Ferrod
- Ferruginous
- fetch
- fiard
- fibratus
- fibre
- fibre trajectory analysis
- Fibrist
- Fibrolite
- fibrous ice
- Fichtelite
- FIDO
- fiducial temperature
- field
- field capacity
- field changes
- field focus
- field geology
- field moisture
- field pressure
- figure of the earth
- figure stone
- Figure-stone
- filiform lapilli
- fill terrace
- fillet lightning
- filling
- filosus
- fine admixture
- fine earth
- fine gravel
- fine sand
- finger
- finger coal
- finger lake
- finite closed aquifer
- finite deformation
- finite displacement vector
- finite strain
- fiord
- Fiorite
- fire fountain
- Fire Marble
- fire weather
- Fire-Garnet
- fireclay
- firn
- firn basin
- firn field
- firn ice
- firn limit
- firn line
- firn snow
- firnification
- first bottom
- first gust
- first-order climatological station
- first-order relief
- first-order station
- firth
- Fischer ellipsoid of 1960
- Fischer spheroid of 1960
- fissile
- fission-track dating
- fissure
- fissure spring
- fissure system
- fissure vein
- fitness figure
- fitness number
- five-and-ten system
- five-day forecast
- Fiveling
- fixed-level chart
- fjard
- Fjord
- fjord valley
- Flag
- flaggy
- flagstone
- flamboyant structure
- flame-perthite
- flan
- Flanders storm
- Flandrian transgression
- flank
- flanking fold
- flanking structure
- flaser
- flaser gabbro
- flaser structure
- flash flood
- flat
- flat-lying
- flattening
- flattening strain
- flaw
- flaxseed ore
- flexible sandstone
- flexural slip
- flexure
- flight briefing
- flight forecast
- flight visibility
- flight-weather briefing
- Flint
- flint clay
- flist
- float
- float coal
- float mineral
- floater
- floating ice
- Flocculation
- floccus
- floe
- floe till
- floeberg
- Flood
- Flood Basalt
- flood basin
- flood current
- flood flow
- flood fringe
- flood icing
- Flood Plain
- flood plane
- flood routing
- Flood Stage
- Flood Tide
- flooded stream
- flooding ice
- floodplain
- floodplain splay
- floor
- Florida Current
- Flos-Ferri
- flow
- Flow banding
- flow breccia
- flow cleavage
- flow earth
- flow fold
- flow law
- flow line
- flow partitioning
- flow pattern
- flow regime
- flow slide
- flow structure
- flow tensor
- flow velocity
- flowage
- flowage line
- Flowing Well
- flowstone
- fluctuation
- fluid geometry
- Fluid Inclusion
- fluid saturation
- flume
- Fluocerine
- fluolite
- Fluorapatite
- fluoridation
- Fluorine
- Fluorite
- Fluorspar
- flurry
- flushing period
- flute
- flute cast
- Fluvent
- fluvial
- fluvial cycle of erosion
- fluvial deposit
- fluvial sand
- fluvial soil
- fluviatile
- Fluvio-Marine
- fluviology
- fluviomorphology
- fly-off
- flying veins
- Flysch
- foam
- foam crust
- foam line
- foam mark
- foam-structure
- Focus
- foehn
- foehn air
- foehn cloud
- foehn cyclone
- foehn island
- foehn nose
- foehn pause
- foehn period
- foehn phase
- foehn storm
- foehn trough
- foehn wall
- fog
- fog deposit
- fog dispersal
- fog drip
- fog drop
- fog droplet
- fog horizon
- fog scale
- fog wind
- fogbank
- fohn
- Fold
- fold belt
- fold system
- folding
- foliaceous
- foliated ice
- Foliation
- foliation intersection/inflection axes (FIA)
- foliation track
- Folist
- following wind
- foothills
- footwall
- Foralite
- Foraminifer
- Foraminiferal Ooze
- ford
- forearc
- forebulge
- forecast
- forecast period
- forecast verification
- forecast-reversal test
- forecasting
- foredeep
- foredune
- Foreign Operations
- Forel scale
- foreland
- foreland fades
- forerunner
- forescatter electron (FSE) OC image
- forescattered electron mode
- foreset bed
- foreshock
- foreshore
- forest climate
- forest wind
- forked lightning
- Formation
- formation factor
- formation pressure
- formation resistivity
- formation water
- Forrel cell
- Forset Beds
- fortnightly tide
- Forty Saints storm
- forward scatter
- Fossil
- fossil turbulence
- fossil dune
- Fossil fuel
- fossil ice
- fossil permafrost
- fossil reef
- fossil resin
- fossil soil
- fossil wax
- foundation coefficient
- founder
- four-way dip
- fowan
- Fowlerite
- fractoconformity
- fracture
- fracture cleavage
- fracture spacing
- fracture strength
- fracture system
- fracture zone
- fracture-plane inclination
- fractured reservoir
- fractus
- fragipan
- fragmentation nucleus
- framboid
- framework
- Francolite
- Franconian
- Franklinite
- frazil
- frazil ice
- free air
- free atmosphere
- free end
- free face
- free foehn
- free meander
- free-air anomaly
- free-air gravity anomaly
- free-air temperature
- free-burning coal
- free-traveling wave
- free-water content
- free-water elevation
- free-water surface
- freestone
- freeze-out lake
- freeze-up
- freezing drizzle
- freezing level
- freezing nucleus
- freezing precipitation
- freezing rain
- freezing-level chart
- Freibergite
- French Chalk
- fresh
- fresh breeze
- fresh gale
- fresh ice
- fresh water
- freshet
- Fresnian
- Friable
- friagem
- friction crack
- friction depth
- friction layer
- friction velocity
- frictional
- fringe
- fringe joint
- fringe ore
- fringe region
- fringe structure
- fringing reef
- frog storm
- front
- front abutment pressure
- front slope
- frontal apron
- frontal contour
- frontal cyclone
- frontal fog
- frontal inversion
- frontal lifting
- frontal occlusion
- frontal passage
- frontal plain
- frontal precipitation
- frontal profile
- frontal strip
- frontal system
- frontal thunderstorm
- frontal wave
- frontal zone
- frontogenesis
- frontogenetic function
- frontolysis
- frost
- frost action
- frost boil
- frost bursting
- frost churning
- frost climate
- frost day
- frost feathers
- frost flakes
- frost flowers
- frost fog
- frost hazard
- frost heaving
- frost hollow
- frost line
- frost mound
- frost pocket
- frost point
- frost riving
- frost shattering
- frost smoke
- frost splitting
- frost stirring
- frost table
- frost thrusting
- frost weathering
- frost wedging
- frost zone
- frost-point technique
- frostless zone
- frozen fog
- frozen ground
- frozen precipitation
- FSE mode
- fucoid
- Fucoidal
- Fulgurite
- fuller's earth
- fully arisen sea
- fully developed sea
- Fumarole
- fumulus
- fundamental circle
- fundamental complex
- fundamental jelly
- fundamental strength
- fundamental substance
- funnel cloud
- furiani
- furnace cupola
- fusain
- fusinite
- fusinization
- fusioncrust
