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Progress in Geology

Modern geologist have increased mans knowledge of the earth in recent years. They have used the reflected earthquake waves to see the different layer and the core of the earth.
Parts of the earth

• Crust
• mantle
• core

remarkable person

• Jean Andre de luce
• Horace Benedict de Suassare

Fossil fr. greek word fodere which means dig up

Contributors

Alfred Wergener

theory of continental drift

Pangaea

Roberts Diets

proposed the hypothesis of the sea floor spreading

Sk Rancorn

Suggested the concept of  paleomagnetism from his findings that the continents had move relatively to the earth’s  magnetic poles.

Gene Shoemaker- took the study of the moon away from lunar astronomers and gave it to  Lunar geologist

radiometric dating -to determine the age of the earth.