EARTH SCIENCE

OCEANOGRAPHY

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GEOLOGY

PHYSICAL GEOLOGY-earthquakes, volcanoes, Earth's history, the processes that shape Earth's surface, and about Earth's resources.

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY-deals with discerning the arrangement and bonding of atoms in crystalline solids and with the geometric structure of crystal lattices

MINERALOGY-study that extensively covers description, crystallography, physical, chemical and environmental features of all minerals.

PETROLOGY-study of rocks - igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary - and the processes that form and transform them.

PHYSICAL- study of physical conditions and physical processes within the ocean

CHEMICAL-chemical components of the oceans, their reactions, and their pathways of transformation.

BIOLOGICAL- study of life in the oceans

GEOLOGICAL-study of Earth beneath the oceans

METEOROLOGY

CLIMATOLOGY- climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate

MICROSCALE METEOROLOGY- study of short-lived atmospheric phenomena smaller than mesoscale, about 1 kilometre

PALEOTEMPESTOLOGY- study of past tropical cyclone activity by means of geological proxies as well as historical documentary records.

ASTRONOMY

ASTROBIOLOGY: Searching for life outside Earth.

ASTROPHYSICS: Applying the laws of physics in space.

STROMETRY: Mapping celestial bodies.

ASTROGEOLOGY: Examining rocks, terrain, and material in space.

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE- study of the Earth's atmosphere and its various inner-working physical processes.