EESA06H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hydrosphere, Geosphere, Mantle Convection
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Chapter 1: introduction to physical geology and the environment. Geology: derived from the greek word geo and logos and means the study of the earth . Earliest detailed geographic maps england, 1815 william smith (referred to as the father of english geology . N. america, geological mapping began in mid 19th century: sir william logan (1842) founding director of geological survey of canada; first to describe geology in. Age of the earth has been determined to be at least 4500 million years old (4. 5 billion) Alfred wegner suggested the movement of continents on the earth"s surface (early 10th c) wrote in 1912. Continental drift: recognized todays continent had previously been clustered together in a large land mass, but subsequently moved apart (pangea, development of plate tectonics theory. Canadian geophysicists: j. tuzo wilson = 1970s responsible for bringing together several key elements in plate tectonics theory .
