EESA06H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: William Edmond Logan, Environmental Geology, Structure Of The Earth
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What is geology: geology is the study of the earth. Emerged in the late 18th century during the industrial revolution: willia(cid:373) (cid:373)ith: referred to as the (cid:862)father of. E(cid:374)glish geolog(cid:455)(cid:863), published one of the earliest detailed geologic maps (1815) Sir william logan: the first to systematically describe the geology of canada, founding director of the geological survey of canada (1842: age of the earth is known to be at least. Wegener in 1912, provided a basis for the idea of a single large continent, pangea. Time and geology: deep time: extremely large periods of time in comparison to even human lifetime or other conventional time measurements. Geoscientists: new challenges for geoscientists relate to finding and managing drinking water and dealing with waste (from household to radioactive, geoscientists can determine what a parcel of land has been through (ie. possible chemical contaminants)
