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    of relating strata to time) and geochronology (a scientific branch of geology that aims to determine the age of rocks). It is used primarily by Earth...
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    classification charts are intended to help create and eventually visualize the outcome. According to Brinton "in a classification chart the facts, data...
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    The geology of the Canary Islands is dominated by volcanoes and volcanic rock. The Canary Islands are a group of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic...
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    Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record. It is the earlier of two subperiods of the...
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    National Geological Monuments are geographical areas of national importance and heritage, as notified by the Government of India's Geological Survey of...
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    Stratigraphy Stratigraphical charts for the Quaternary Version history of the global Quaternary chronostratigraphical charts (from 2004b) Silva, P.G. C...
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    also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, on the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods of the Carboniferous Period (or...
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    inward. Bathymetric surveys and charts are associated with the science of oceanography, particularly marine geology, and underwater engineering or other...
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  • of Granite Harbour, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the Western Geological Party of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–13) who established...
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    Merriam-Webster. Henry, Darrell. "Classification of Igneous Rocks - Flow Chart". Geology 3041: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Lectures. Louisiana State University...
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  • Marine geology or geological oceanography is the study of the history and structure of the ocean floor. It involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological...
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  • satellite & aerial imagery, topographic maps, nautical & aeronautical charts, geological maps, bathymetric data and atlases. EVG has a history serving Energy...
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  • stratigraphical, geological, and geochronological matters on a global scale. It is the largest subordinate body of the International Union of Geological Sciences...
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    Triassic (redirect from Triassic (geology))
    The Triassic (/traɪˈæsɪk/ try-ASS-ik; sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian...
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    The geologic record in stratigraphy, paleontology and other natural sciences refers to the entirety of the layers of rock strata. That is, deposits laid...
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    In geology, a group is a lithostratigraphic unit consisting of a series of related formations that have been classified together to form a group. Formations...
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    International Chronostratigraphic Chart (PDF), International Commission on Stratigraphy. Dickin, Alan P. (2000). Radiogenic isotope geology (1 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge...
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  • stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition. A...
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    Dictionary of geological terms, Anchor, 3rd ed. 1984, p. 372 ISBN 978-0-385-18101-3 Guilbert, John M. and Charles F. Park, Jr., The Geology of Ore Deposits...
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    Permian (redirect from Permian (geology))
    The Permian (/ˈpɜːrmi.ən/ PUR-mee-ən) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period...
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  • Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of geology. As of...
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  • Meghalayan (category First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites)
    Holocene epoch or series. This way of breaking down time is based only on geology; for example, it is unrelated to the three-age system of historical periods...
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    (/ɔːrdəˈvɪʃi.ən, -doʊ-, -ˈvɪʃən/ or-də-VISH-ee-ən, -⁠doh-, -⁠VISH-ən) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era. The...
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    Sediment (redirect from Sediment (geology))
    particles will be more likely to fall through the flow. In geography and geology, fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated...
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  • "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred relative...
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    Quaternary Glacial Erosion and Corrie Formation, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica". Geology. 1 (2): 76. Bibcode:1973Geo.....1...75A. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1973)1<75:ROQGEA>2...
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    The Cretaceous (IPA: /krɪˈteɪʃəs/ krih-TAY-shəss) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and...
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    Forensic geology is the study of evidence relating to materials found in the Earth used to answer questions raised by the legal system. In 1975, Ray Murray...
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  • Tertiary (redirect from Tertiary (geology))
    the Quaternary, was applied. In the early development of the study of geology, the periods were thought by scriptural geologists to correspond to the...
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    The geological history of the Earth follows the major geological events in Earth's past based on the geological time scale, a system of chronological...
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