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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on Dec. 25, 2008)

Earth science

Definition

Any of the sciences that deal with the earth or with one or more of its parts

Eearth planetary science includes planetary sicence on solar system

Earth consisting of four spheres

  • atmosphere (気圏) → meteorology (気象学)
  • hydrosphere (水圏) → oceanography (海洋学)
  • lithosphere (岩圏) → geology (地質学) [petrology (岩石学), mineralogy (鉱物学), stratigraphy (層序学), etc.]
  • biosphere (生物圏) → ecology (生態学)

Geophysics (地球物理学)

= geochemistry (地球化学) + biogeochemistry (生物地球科学)


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