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The term geological is used to refer to everything that is linked or is proper to the geology. Such is the case of a geological era, the geological study of an area, the geological time in which such a phenomenon took place, among others.

Meanwhile, the geology is that science that takes care of analyze the inner and outer shape of the planet land. In other words, geology is concerned with the study of those matters that make up the planet and the mechanism in which they are made. On the other hand, it also deals with the alterations that the aforementioned subjects have suffered since their origins and the current situation in which they are.

Within geology it is possible to distinguish different sub branches or sub disciplines dealing with and concentrating on different issues, each very specific: structural geology (studies the structures of the Earth crust, analyzing the relationship established between the different rocks that make it up), historical geology

(focuses on the transformations that the earth has undergone, from its birth to the present day. With the aim of streamlining the analyzes, geologists, who are the professionals enrolled in this science, have determined divisions in this passage and thus it is that we find the eras, ages and periods), economic geology (Study those rocks that have mineral wealth to later be exploited by man. Once geology found the deposits the mining she's ready to start her work).

Other branches related to Geology are: seismology (focuses on the study of earthquakes and the propagation of seismic waves), volcanology (he studies the Volcanic eruptions and tries to predict them) and thestar geology (applies geological techniques and discoveries to celestial bodies such as planets, asteroids and comets).

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