"Anyone who doesn't
take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones
either." Albert Einstein
Published on Science
Doubts: October 2009
Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth
sciences), is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the
planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the
Earth being the only known life-bearing planet. There are both reductionist
and holistic approaches to Earth science.
There are four major disciplines in earth sciences, namely geography,
geology, geophysics and geodesy. These major disciplines use physics,
chemistry, biology, chronology and mathematics to build a quantitative
understanding of the principal areas or spheres of the Earth system.
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