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    This document discusses key concepts in geology and earth science, including the scientific method, theories of planetary formation, rock types and textures, methods of relative and absolute dating of rocks including radioactive isotopes and fossil evidence, and the division of geologic time periods. It covers processes like sedimentation, metamorphism, and the rock cycle, and references scientists who have contributed to the refinement of these ideas.

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    This document discusses key concepts in geology and earth science, including the scientific method, theories of planetary formation, rock types and textures, methods of relative and absolute dating of rocks including radioactive isotopes and fossil evidence, and the division of geologic time periods. It covers processes like sedimentation, metamorphism, and the rock cycle, and references scientists who have contributed to the refinement of these ideas.

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    Scientific method
    2. Observation
    3. Hypothesis
    4. Theory
    5. prediction
    6. Plantetesimals
    7. 100 million years
    8. Young stars, infrared radiation
    9. Radioactive isotopes
    10. Meteorites
    11. Gravitational interactions
    12. ? collisions
    13. Minerology
    14. Crystalline
    15. Texture
    16. Coarse
    17. Fine
    18. Appearance, origin
    19. Sediment
    20. Cementation
    21. Compaction
    22. Metamorphic
    23. ?foliation
    24. ?nonfoliation
    25. Rock cycle
    26. Igneous
    27. Lava
    28. Intrusive
    29. Crystals, slow
    30. lava
    31. Extrusive
    32. texture, minerals
    33. Granitic
    34. Basaltic
    35. geochronology
    36. Deep time
    37. Present, blocks
    38. Absolute age
    39. Radioactive isotopes
    40. Rate
    41. zero
    42. Halflife
    43. ?absolute dating
    44. lithostratigraphy
    45. Law of superposition
    46. Relative dating
    47. Biostratigraphy
    48. ?biostratigraphic correlation
    49. Superposition
    50. Horizontally
    51. ?marine shell
    52. ?fossil
    53. phanerozoic
    54. Paleo
    55. Meso
    56. Ceno
    57. Millions
    58. Epochs
    59. ?W. B. N. Berry
    60. refinement
    61.

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