[GEOL 1001] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (22 pages long!)
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Physical geology examines the materials composing earth and seeks to understand the many processes that operate. Historical geology to understand the origin of earth and its development through time. Strives to establish an orderly chronological arrangement of the multitude of physical and biological changes that have occurred in the geologic past. James hutton theory of the earth, argued that earth had process that took place over long periods of time with effects just as great as sudden catastrophes. Wegner"s continental drift theory that continents moved about the plane, challenged traditional thinking, evolved into theory of plate tectonics. Evidence of continents moving are fossils and remains from the same animals are found on different continents. Uniformitarianism the present is the key to the past. We can look at physics, chemistry, and biology laws that operate today, we assume they also operated in the past. Earth is approximately 4. 6 billion years old geologic time . Hypothesis tentative explanation for how/why things happen.
