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Masaryk University

Geology

Geologie

Language: Czech Studies in Czech

Subject area: physical science, environment

University website: www.muni.cz/

Years of study: 4

Geology

Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Geology can also refer to the study of the solid features of any terrestrial planet or natural satellite, (such as Mars or the Moon).

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Geology is an exact science too. Many factors of geological phenomena can be measured and grouped in "correlation structures," aspects of which can be treated mathematically.

In: p. 457.

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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus.

Richard Kirwan in: The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume 6: Essay on the Primitive State of the Globe and its Subsequent Catastrophe, Royal Irish Academy (Dublin), 1797, p. 236

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Geology is as intimately related to almost all the physical sciences, as is history to the moral.

William Humble in: “Dictionary of geology and mineralogy: comprising such terms in botany”, p. 104.

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