James hutton (1726 - 1797) was a Scottish geologist, physician, chemist, naturalist, and experimental farmer. He is known as the "father of geology", ...
William smith (1769 - 1839) was an English geologist, author of the first geological map of the island of Great Britain. Despite the fact that his edu...
The structural geology It is the branch of geology that is responsible for studying the geometric relationships of rocks and geological characteristic...
The Cambrian It is the first period that makes up the Paleozoic Era. It spanned from 541 million years ago to 485 million years ago. During this geolo...
The Ordovician period it was one of the six periods that made up the Paleozoic Era. It was located immediately after the Cambrian and before the Silur...
A andosol It is a soil that is formed on ash, rocks, glass and other materials of volcanic origin. It is also called volcanic ash soil and is black in...
The Pliocene it was the last epoch of the Neogene period of the Cenozoic Era. It began approximately 5.5 million years ago and ended 2.6 million years...
The Neogene it was the second period of the Cenozoic Era, beginning about 23 million years ago and ending about 2.6 million years ago. It is a period ...
The Oligocene It was the third and last of the epochs that made up the Paleogene period of the Cenozoic Era. It lasted from about 33.9 million years a...
