EESA06H3 Chapter 1-4, 11, 19-20: EESA06 TEXTBOOK NOTES
15 Feb 2018
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1 introduction to physical geology & the environment. Late 18th century is when industrial revolution in n. europe created growing demand for energy & minerals such as coal, limestone & water. William smith known as father of english geology , published earliest detailed geologic maps in 1815. Sir william logan~1842, founding director of geological survey of canada; first to systematically describe canada"s geology. Earth is now known to be ~4. 5 billion years old. Moving continents: 20th century, meteorologist alfred wegener suggested movement of continents. He wrote about continental drift in 1912 & supercontinent landmass called. William smith (1769-1839: comparing rocks he saw with some of successions he observed near bath, england. ~1799 outlined/coloured distribution of geological features on a map of local area around bath: tuzo wilson, responsible for bringing together his contributions to development of plate tectonics theory. Time and geology: geology involves vastly great amounts of time (referred to as deep time)
