ISCI 2A18 Study Guide - Final Guide: Habitat Fragmentation, Ornithischia, Bouma Sequence
6 Dec 2016
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Resource exploration and exploitation metals, hydrocarbons, diamonds, aggregate. Prediction of natural hazards where, how frequently earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides will occur. Environmental protection past & future climate change, groundwater, urban planning and development. Chemistry (geochemistry) mineralogy, isotopic analysis, spectral analysis of earth materials, contamination. Physics (geophysics) seismic, magnetic, radioactive properties of earth materials. Math modeling of earth processes, 3d visualization. Oldest rocks on earth are 4. 03 billion years old. Life has been present on earth for around 3. 5 billion years. There may be pieces missing, there will be different versions of events, events may not have happened in logical chronology, there were false starts (ex. plate tectonics). History of science is a history of people being wrong and failing at things. We only see the pieces that survive and must make logical inferences about the rest. We want to know what happened and when, but also why it happened (to that person, in that year, etc. )
