Sheshai Leota G.

Leonida

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Geology
• first coined by Jean-
Andre Deluc (1778)

• geo- “the earth”

logos- “word/reasoning”

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Weathering/weathering.html

Native gold with

quartz

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 BRANCHES OF GEOLOGY

PHYSICAL HISTORICAL
GEOLOGY GEOLOGY
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 BRANCHES OF GEOLOGY
Examines the
materials comprising
the Earth and the
PHYSICAL processes occurring
on and beneath the
GEOLOGY surface

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 BRANCHES OF GEOLOGY
Studies Earth’s origin
and evolution
through time
HISTORICAL
Deals with layered
rock record and GEOLOGY
fossils
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 Taal Volcano, Philippines

VOLCANOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY

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 Taal Volcano, Philippines

VOLCANOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY

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Candon, Ilocos Sur

Grand Canyon National Park, USA

STRATIGRAPHY GEOMORPHOLOGY

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Candon, Ilocos Sur

Grand Canyon National Park, USA

STRATIGRAPHY GEOMORPHOLOGY

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GEOCHRONOLOGY

SEISMOLOGY
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GEOCHRONOLOGY

SEISMOLOGY
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 Porphyritic andesite
Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur Native gold with
quartz

PETROLOGY MINERALOGY

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 Porphyritic andesite
Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur Native gold with
quartz

PETROLOGY MINERALOGY

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Abraham James Baron Charles
Gottlob Hutton Georges Lyell
Werner Cuvier

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Abraham James Baron Charles
Gottlob Hutton Georges Lyell
Werner Cuvier

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Neptunism
• States that rocks are
materials that have
settled out of a large
primordial ocean
whose level gradually
dropped overtime
Abraham Gottlob
Werner

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Abraham James Baron Charles
Gottlob Hutton Georges Lyell
Werner Cuvier

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Plutonism
• States that the
processes involving
the formation of rocks
is driven by heat
concealed within the
Earth’s interior
James Hutton

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Abraham James Baron Charles
Gottlob Hutton Georges Lyell
Werner Cuvier

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Catastrophism
• States that sudden
worldwide catastrophes
are the agents that alter
Earth’s physical features
over time

• Earth remains unchanged

between these events Baron Georges
Cuvier

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Abraham James Baron Charles
Gottlob Hutton Georges Lyell
Werner Cuvier

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Uniformitarianism

“The present
is the key to
the past.”
James Hutton Charles Lyell

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