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- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge about the physical world derived from the activities of observation and experimentation. [e]
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- Acid rain [r]: Deposition of acidified rain, snow, sleet, hail, gases and particles, and acidified fog and cloud water, due to nitric or sulfuric acid pollution. [e]
- Age (geology) [r]: The fundamental chronostratigraphic unit. [e]
- Air pollution dispersion modeling [r]: Describes the basic mathematical simulation (i.e., modeling) of how buoyant air pollutants disperse in the atmosphere. [e]
- Air Quality Index [r]: A number used by government agencies to characterize the quality of the ambient air at a given location. [e]
- Biostratigraphy [r]: A domain of stratigraphy that involves the identification of fossils and their position relative to their occurrences in space and time. [e]
- Cambrian (geology) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chronostratigraphy [r]: The branch of stratigraphy that studies the relative time relations and ages of rock bodies. [e]
- Geochronometry [r]: A branch of stratigraphy and of geochronology aimed at the quantitative measurement of geologic time. [e]
- Geochronology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Geologic ages of earth history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Geomorphology [r]: The study of the landforms and geological history of an area, the processes that have shaped the landscape, and the time period over which these processes occur. [e]
- Geophysics [r]: The study of the Earth by quantitative physical methods, namely seismic, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, thermal and radioactivity methods. [e]
- Global warming [r]: The increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. [e]
- Greenhouse effect [r]: A general attribute of planets and moons with atmospheres denoting an imbalance between surface radiation and top-of-atmosphere radiation due to the presence of greenhouse gases. [e]
- Hydrology [r]: The interdisciplinary study of the movement, characteristics and distribution of water, surface-water (fresh water and salt water), groundwater, and water-quality. [e]
- Lithostratigraphy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Magnetostratigraphy [r]: Studies of the magnetic characteristics of rocks [e]
- National Center for Atmospheric Research [r]: A non-governmental U.S.-based institute whose mission is "exploring and understanding our atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society." [e]
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [r]: A scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere. [e]
- Natural envirionment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oceanography [r]: The scientific study of the oceans. [e]
- Ocean heat content [r]: The amount of heat stored in the oceans which is used by scientists to analyze and project climate change. [e]
- Palynology [r]: The science of the study of contemporary and fossil palynomorphs as well as associated particulate organic matter (POM) in sedimentary strata. [e]
- Sedimentary geology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stage (geology) [r]: A unit in the study of soil layers. [e]
- Stratigraphy [r]: The interdisciplinary science field that describes all rock bodies that form the Earth's crust and the manner in which they are organised into distinctive units that are then mapped. [e]
