[GEOL 101] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (46 pages long)
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Origin of the universe, solar system, earth"s structure. Define the field of geology and its goals. Outline and describe how the earth is structured. Compare and contrast the chemical and physical divisions of the earth"s structure. Evaluate adequately, tested all possibilities/not introduced biases. Science of understand earth, its history, components, physical/chemical characteristics. During 17th/18th century, ideas of earth"s history influenced by catastrophism. Catastrophism: earth"s landscape shaped primarily by sudden violent and unusual events. James hutton (father of modern geo) developed uniformitarianism. Uniformitarianism: all bio/chem/phys laws that operate today also operated in geological past. The present is a key to the past . Started ~13. 7 billion years ago as incomprehensible explosion (universe expanding) Over billions of years, debris cools, condenses into space shit. Within galaxies, concentrations of gas, dust, elements from nebulae come together through gravity. Orion nebula, active location of star formation (protostar)
