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Geologic provincesGeology (from Greek: γη,
ge, "earth"; and λόγος,
logos, "speech" lit. to talk about the earth) is the science and study of the solid matter that constitutes the Earth. Encompassing such things as rocks, soil, and gemstones, geology studies the composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape Earth's components. It is one of the
Earth sciences. Geologists have established the age of the Earth at about 4.6 billion (4.6x109) years, and have determined that the Earth's lithosphere, which includes the Crust (geology), is fragmented into tectonic plates that move over a
rheid upper Mantle (geology) (
asthenosphere) via processes that are collectively referred to as plate tectonics. Geologists help locate and manage the Earth's
natural resources, such as petroleum and
coal, as well as metals such as iron, copper, and
uranium. Additional economic interests include
gemstones and many minerals such as
asbestos, perlite, mica, phosphates,
zeolites, clay, pumice, quartz, and silica, as well as elements such as sulfur, chlorine, and
helium.
Planetary geology (sometimes known as Astrogeology) refers to the application of geologic principles to other bodies of the solar system. Specialised terms such as
selenology (studies of the moon),
areology (of
Mars (planet)), etc., are also in use. Colloquially,
geology is most often used with another noun when indicating extra-Earth bodies (e.g. "the geology of Mars").
The word "geology" was first used by Jean-André Deluc in the year 1778 and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in the year 1779. The science was not included in
Encyclopedia Britannica's third edition completed in 1797, but had a lengthy entry in the fourth edition completed by 1809. ISBN 0-06-093180-9 An older meaning of the word was first used by Richard Aungerville to distinguish between earthly and Theology jurisprudence.
History
The work
Peri Lithon (
On Stones) by Theophrastus (372-287 BC), a student of Aristotle, remained authoritative for millennia. Its interpretation of fossils was not overturned until after the Scientific Revolution. It was translated into
Latin and some other foreign languages.
Some modern scholars, such as
Fielding H. Garrison, are of the opinion that modern geology began in the
Muslim world.Fielding H. Garrison wrote in the
History of Medicine:
Abū al-Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973-1048 AD) was one of the earliest Muslim geologists, whose works included the earliest writings on the
geology of India.
Abdus Salam (1984), "Islam and Science". In C. H. Lai (1987),
Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam, 2nd ed., World Scientific, Singapore, p. 179-213. Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 981 - 1037 C.E.), in particular, made significant contribution to natural sciences (which he called
Attabieyat) along with other natural philosophers such as Ikhwan AI-Safa and many others. He wrote an encyclopaedic work entitled “
Kitab AI-Shifa” (the Book of Cure, Healing or Remedy from ignorance), in which Part 2, Section 5, contains his essay on Mineralogy and Meteorology, in six chapters: Formation of mountains, The advantages of mountains in the formation of clouds; Sources of water; Origin of earthquakes; Formation of minerals; The diversity of earth’s terrain. These principles were later known in the Renaissance of Europe as the law of superposition of strata, the concept of catastrophisim, and the doctrine of uniformitarianism. These concepts were also embodied in the Theory of the Earth by James Hutton in the Eighteenth century C.E. Academics such as Toulumin and Goodfield (1965), commented on Avicenna's contribution: "Around A.D. 1000, Avicenna was already suggesting a hypothesis about the origin of mountain ranges, which in the Christian world, would still have been considered quite radical eight hundred years later".Toulumin, S. and Goodfield, J. (1965), ’The Ancestry of science: The Discovery of Time’, Hutchinson & Co., London, p.64. Also see http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=319
In
China, the polymath
Shen Kua (1031-1095) formulated a hypothesis for the process of land formation: based on his observation of
fossil animal shell in a geological
stratum in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by erosion of the
mountains and by Deposition (sediment) of
silt.
Georg Agricola (1494-1555), a physician, wrote the first systematic treatise about mining and
smelting works,
De re metallica libri XII, with an appendix
Buch von den Lebewesen unter Tage (Book of the Creatures Beneath the Earth). He covered subjects like
wind energy,
hydropower, melting cookers, transport of
ores, extraction of
sodium, sulfur and
alum, and administrative issues. The book was published in 1556.Nicolas Steno (1638-1686) is credited with the law of superposition, the principle of original horizontality, and the principle of lateral continuity: three defining principles of stratigraphy. Previous attempts at such statements meet accusations of heresy from the Church.
By the 1700s
Jean-Étienne Guettard and Nicolas Desmarest hiked central France and recorded their observations on
Geologic map; Guettard recorded the first observation of the
Volcano origins of this part of France.
William Smith (geologist) (1769-1839) drew some of the first geological maps and began the process of ordering
rock strata (layers) by examining the fossils contained in them.
James Hutton is often viewed as the first modern geologist. In 1785 he presented a paper entitled
Theory of the Earth to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In his paper, he explained his theory that the Earth must be much older than had previously been supposed in order to allow enough time for mountains to be eroded and for sediments to form new rocks at the bottom of the sea, which in turn were raised up to become dry land. Hutton published a two-volume version of his ideas in 1795 ( Vol. 1, Vol. 2).
.Followers of Hutton were known as
Plutonism because they believed that some rocks were formed by
vulcanism which is the deposition of lava from volcanoes, as opposed to the
Neptunism, who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dropped over time.
In 1811 Georges Cuvier and
Alexandre Brongniart published their explanation of the antiquity of the Earth, inspired by Cuvier's discovery of fossil elephant bones in Paris. To prove this, they formulated the principle of Stratigraphy succession of the layers of the earth. They were independently anticipated by
William Smith (geologist) stratigraphic studies on England and Scotland.
By 1827
Charles Lyell's
Principles of Geology reiterated Hutton's uniformitarianism, which influenced the thought of
Charles Darwin.
Sir Charles Lyell first published his famous book,
Principles of Geology, in 1830 and continued to publish new revisions until he died in 1875. He successfully promoted the doctrine of
Uniformitarianism (science). This theory states that slow geological processes have occurred throughout the History of Earth and are still occurring today. In contrast, catastrophism is the theory that Earth's features formed in single, catastrophic events and remained unchanged thereafter. Though Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time.
and continental drift illustrated on relief globe of the
Field Museum 19th century geology revolved around the question of the Age of the Earth. Estimates varied from a few 100,000 to billions of years. The most significant advance in 20th century geology has been the development of the theory of
plate tectonics in the 1960s. Plate tectonic theory arose out of two separate geological observations: seafloor spreading and continental drift. The theory revolutionized the
Earth sciences.
The theory of continental drift was proposed by Frank Bursley Taylor in 1908, expanded by
Alfred Wegener in 1912 and by Arthur Holmes, but wasn't broadly accepted until the late 1960s when the theory of plate tectonics was developed.
Important principles of geology
There are a number of important principles in geology. Many of these involve the ability to provide the relative ages of strata or the manner in which they were formed.
The principle of intrusive relationships concerns crosscutting
Intrusion (geology). In geology, when an
igneous rocks intrusion cuts across a formation of sedimentary rock, it can be determined that the igneous intrusion is younger than the sedimentary rock. There are a number of different types of intrusions, including stocks, laccoliths,
batholiths, Sill (geology) and
Dike (geology).
The principle of cross-cutting relationships pertains to the formation of Geologic fault and the age of the sequences through which they cut. Faults are younger than the rocks they cut; accordingly, if a fault is found that penetrates some formations but not those on top of it, then the formations that were cut are older than the fault, and the ones that are not cut must be younger than the fault. Finding the key bed in these situations may help determine whether the fault is a normal fault or a thrust fault.
The principle of inclusions and components states that, with sedimentary rocks, if inclusions (or
Clastic rocks) are found in a formation, then the inclusions must be older than the formation that contains them. For example, in sedimentary rocks, it is common for gravel from an older formation to be ripped up and included in a newer layer. A similar situation with igneous rocks occurs when
xenoliths are found. These foreign bodies are picked up as
magma or lava flows, and are incorporated, later to cool in the matrix. As a result, xenoliths are older than the rock which contains them.
The Uniformitarianism (science) states that the geologic processes observed in operation that modify the Earth's crust at present have worked in much the same way over geologic time. A fundamental principle of geology advanced by the 18th century Scottish physician and geologist James Hutton, is that "the present is the key to the past." In Hutton's words: "the past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now."
The principle of original horizontality states that the deposition of sediments occurs as essentially horizontal beds. Observation of modern marine and non-marine sediments in a wide variety of environments supports this generalization (although cross-bedding is inclined, the overall orientation of cross-bedded units is horizontal).
The Law of superposition states that a sedimentary rock layer in a tectonically undisturbed sequence is younger than the one beneath it and older than the one above it. Logically a younger layer cannot slip beneath a layer previously deposited. This principle allows sedimentary layers to be viewed as a form of vertical time line, a partial or complete record of the time elapsed from deposition of the lowest layer to deposition of the highest bed.
The principle of faunal succession is based on the appearance of fossils in sedimentary rocks. As organisms exist at the same time period throughout the world, their presence or (sometimes) absence may be used to provide a relative age of the formations in which they are found. Based on principles laid out by
William Smith (geologist) almost a hundred years before the publication of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the principles of succession were developed independently of evolutionary thought. The principle becomes quite complex, however, given the uncertainties of fossilization, the localization of fossil types due to lateral changes in habitat (facies change in sedimentary strata), and that not all fossils may be found globally at the same time.
Fields or related disciplines
and
anticline commonly studied in
Structural geology and Geomorphology.
and
volcanic arcs illustrates one effect of plate tectonics.
Regional geology
By nations
- Geology of the Falkland Islands
- Geology of the United States of America
- US geology by state:
- US Geology by region or feature:
Planetary geology
lander December 9,
1977.
See also
External links
- James Hutton's Theory of the Earth
- James Hutton's Theory of the Earth & Abstract of the Theory of the Earth
References
Geologic provincesGeology (from Greek: γη,
ge, "earth"; and λόγος,
logos, "speech" lit. to talk about the earth) is the
science and study of the solid matter that constitutes the Earth. Encompassing such things as rocks, soil, and gemstones, geology studies the composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape Earth's components. It is one of the Earth sciences.
Geologists have established the age of the Earth at about 4.6 billion (4.6x109) years, and have determined that the Earth's lithosphere, which includes the Crust (geology), is fragmented into tectonic plates that move over a
rheid upper
Mantle (geology) (
asthenosphere) via processes that are collectively referred to as
plate tectonics. Geologists help locate and manage the Earth's natural resources, such as
petroleum and coal, as well as metals such as
iron,
copper, and
uranium. Additional economic interests include
gemstones and many minerals such as asbestos,
perlite, mica, phosphates,
zeolites,
clay,
pumice,
quartz, and silica, as well as elements such as
sulfur, chlorine, and
helium.
Planetary geology (sometimes known as Astrogeology) refers to the application of geologic principles to other bodies of the solar system. Specialised terms such as
selenology (studies of the
moon),
areology (of
Mars (planet)), etc., are also in use. Colloquially,
geology is most often used with another noun when indicating extra-Earth bodies (e.g. "the geology of Mars").
The word "geology" was first used by Jean-André Deluc in the year 1778 and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in the year 1779. The science was not included in
Encyclopedia Britannica's third edition completed in 1797, but had a lengthy entry in the fourth edition completed by 1809. ISBN 0-06-093180-9 An older meaning of the word was first used by
Richard Aungerville to distinguish between earthly and
Theology jurisprudence.
History
The work
Peri Lithon (
On Stones) by
Theophrastus (372-287 BC), a student of
Aristotle, remained authoritative for millennia. Its interpretation of fossils was not overturned until after the Scientific Revolution. It was translated into
Latin and some other foreign languages.
Some modern scholars, such as Fielding H. Garrison, are of the opinion that modern geology began in the
Muslim world.Fielding H. Garrison wrote in the
History of Medicine:
Abū al-Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973-1048 AD) was one of the earliest
Muslim geologists, whose works included the earliest writings on the
geology of India.Abdus Salam (1984), "Islam and Science". In C. H. Lai (1987),
Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam, 2nd ed., World Scientific, Singapore, p. 179-213. Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 981 - 1037 C.E.), in particular, made significant contribution to natural sciences (which he called
Attabieyat) along with other natural philosophers such as Ikhwan AI-Safa and many others. He wrote an encyclopaedic work entitled “
Kitab AI-Shifa” (the Book of Cure, Healing or Remedy from ignorance), in which Part 2, Section 5, contains his essay on Mineralogy and Meteorology, in six chapters: Formation of mountains, The advantages of mountains in the formation of clouds; Sources of water; Origin of earthquakes; Formation of minerals; The diversity of earth’s terrain. These principles were later known in the Renaissance of Europe as the law of superposition of strata, the concept of catastrophisim, and the doctrine of uniformitarianism. These concepts were also embodied in the Theory of the Earth by James Hutton in the Eighteenth century C.E. Academics such as Toulumin and Goodfield (1965), commented on Avicenna's contribution: "Around A.D. 1000, Avicenna was already suggesting a hypothesis about the origin of mountain ranges, which in the Christian world, would still have been considered quite radical eight hundred years later".Toulumin, S. and Goodfield, J. (1965), ’The Ancestry of science: The Discovery of Time’, Hutchinson & Co., London, p.64. Also see http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=319
In
China, the
polymath Shen Kua (1031-1095) formulated a hypothesis for the process of land formation: based on his observation of fossil
animal shell in a geological
stratum in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by
erosion of the
mountains and by Deposition (sediment) of
silt.
Georg Agricola (1494-1555), a physician, wrote the first systematic treatise about
mining and smelting works,
De re metallica libri XII, with an appendix
Buch von den Lebewesen unter Tage (Book of the Creatures Beneath the Earth). He covered subjects like
wind energy, hydropower, melting cookers, transport of
ores, extraction of
sodium, sulfur and alum, and administrative issues. The book was published in 1556.Nicolas Steno (1638-1686) is credited with the law of superposition, the
principle of original horizontality, and the principle of lateral continuity: three defining principles of
stratigraphy. Previous attempts at such statements meet accusations of heresy from the Church.
By the 1700s
Jean-Étienne Guettard and
Nicolas Desmarest hiked central France and recorded their observations on
Geologic map; Guettard recorded the first observation of the Volcano origins of this part of France.
William Smith (geologist) (1769-1839) drew some of the first geological maps and began the process of ordering
rock strata (layers) by examining the fossils contained in them.
James Hutton is often viewed as the first modern geologist. In 1785 he presented a paper entitled
Theory of the Earth to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In his paper, he explained his theory that the Earth must be much older than had previously been supposed in order to allow enough time for mountains to be eroded and for
sediments to form new rocks at the bottom of the sea, which in turn were raised up to become dry land. Hutton published a two-volume version of his ideas in 1795 ( Vol. 1, Vol. 2).
.Followers of Hutton were known as
Plutonism because they believed that some rocks were formed by vulcanism which is the deposition of lava from volcanoes, as opposed to the
Neptunism, who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dropped over time.
In 1811
Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart published their explanation of the antiquity of the Earth, inspired by Cuvier's discovery of fossil elephant bones in Paris. To prove this, they formulated the principle of
Stratigraphy succession of the layers of the earth. They were independently anticipated by
William Smith (geologist) stratigraphic studies on England and Scotland.
By 1827 Charles Lyell's
Principles of Geology reiterated Hutton's uniformitarianism, which influenced the thought of Charles Darwin.
Sir Charles Lyell first published his famous book,
Principles of Geology, in 1830 and continued to publish new revisions until he died in 1875. He successfully promoted the doctrine of Uniformitarianism (science). This theory states that slow geological processes have occurred throughout the History of Earth and are still occurring today. In contrast,
catastrophism is the theory that Earth's features formed in single, catastrophic events and remained unchanged thereafter. Though Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time.
and
continental drift illustrated on relief globe of the Field Museum
19th century geology revolved around the question of the
Age of the Earth. Estimates varied from a few 100,000 to billions of years. The most significant advance in 20th century geology has been the development of the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s. Plate tectonic theory arose out of two separate geological observations:
seafloor spreading and
continental drift. The theory revolutionized the
Earth sciences.
The theory of continental drift was proposed by Frank Bursley Taylor in 1908, expanded by Alfred Wegener in 1912 and by Arthur Holmes, but wasn't broadly accepted until the late 1960s when the theory of plate tectonics was developed.
Important principles of geology
There are a number of important principles in geology. Many of these involve the ability to provide the relative ages of strata or the manner in which they were formed.
The principle of intrusive relationships concerns crosscutting
Intrusion (geology). In geology, when an igneous rocks intrusion cuts across a formation of
sedimentary rock, it can be determined that the igneous intrusion is younger than the sedimentary rock. There are a number of different types of intrusions, including stocks,
laccoliths,
batholiths,
Sill (geology) and
Dike (geology).
The principle of cross-cutting relationships pertains to the formation of Geologic fault and the age of the sequences through which they cut. Faults are younger than the rocks they cut; accordingly, if a fault is found that penetrates some formations but not those on top of it, then the formations that were cut are older than the fault, and the ones that are not cut must be younger than the fault. Finding the key bed in these situations may help determine whether the fault is a normal fault or a
thrust fault.
The principle of inclusions and components states that, with sedimentary rocks, if inclusions (or
Clastic rocks) are found in a formation, then the inclusions must be older than the formation that contains them. For example, in sedimentary rocks, it is common for gravel from an older formation to be ripped up and included in a newer layer. A similar situation with igneous rocks occurs when
xenoliths are found. These foreign bodies are picked up as
magma or
lava flows, and are incorporated, later to cool in the matrix. As a result, xenoliths are older than the rock which contains them.
The Uniformitarianism (science) states that the geologic processes observed in operation that modify the Earth's crust at present have worked in much the same way over geologic time. A fundamental principle of geology advanced by the 18th century Scottish physician and geologist
James Hutton, is that "the present is the key to the past." In Hutton's words: "the past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now."
The principle of original horizontality states that the deposition of sediments occurs as essentially horizontal beds. Observation of modern marine and non-marine sediments in a wide variety of environments supports this generalization (although cross-bedding is inclined, the overall orientation of cross-bedded units is horizontal).
The Law of superposition states that a sedimentary rock layer in a tectonically undisturbed sequence is younger than the one beneath it and older than the one above it. Logically a younger layer cannot slip beneath a layer previously deposited. This principle allows sedimentary layers to be viewed as a form of vertical time line, a partial or complete record of the time elapsed from deposition of the lowest layer to deposition of the highest bed.
The principle of faunal succession is based on the appearance of fossils in sedimentary rocks. As organisms exist at the same time period throughout the world, their presence or (sometimes) absence may be used to provide a relative age of the formations in which they are found. Based on principles laid out by William Smith (geologist) almost a hundred years before the publication of
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the principles of succession were developed independently of evolutionary thought. The principle becomes quite complex, however, given the uncertainties of fossilization, the localization of fossil types due to lateral changes in habitat (facies change in sedimentary strata), and that not all fossils may be found globally at the same time.
Fields or related disciplines
and anticline commonly studied in
Structural geology and Geomorphology.
and volcanic arcs illustrates one effect of plate tectonics.
Regional geology
By nations
- Geology of the Falkland Islands
- Geology of the United States of America
- US geology by state:
- US Geology by region or feature:
Planetary geology
lander
December 9,
1977.
See also
External links
- James Hutton's Theory of the Earth
- James Hutton's Theory of the Earth & Abstract of the Theory of the Earth
References
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