'Government Instrumentality' means any state, provincial, city, municipal or local government and any department thereof, or the central bank, court, commission, bureau or board exercising any regulation, expropriation or taxing authority under or for the account of any of the foregoing. 'General Manager' or ' Deputy General Manager' means the individual or entity appointed pursuant to Article 35 herein. 'Exploration Unit' or ' Exploration Units' means an area or areas, each 1 km2 in size, forming the basic units of an Exploration Area. ' Exploration Program' means any program or plan formulated by the JVC's geologists and engineers for the exploration of an Operating Area or Operating Areas. Environmental geology, including most importantly the geologic hazards of earthquakes and volcanism, must also include a detailed knowledge of geologic history.Exploration Licenses means the licenses, permits or rights, to conduct exploration activities within the Operating Areas granted by Government Instrumentality. The discovery of radioactivity and the development of several radiometric dating techniques in the first half of the 20th century provided a means of deriving absolute versus relative ages of geologic history.Įconomic geology, the search for and extraction of fuel and raw materials, is heavily dependent on an understanding of the geological history of an area.

It also focuses on the evolution of plants and animals during different time periods in the geological timescale. It focuses on geologic processes that change the Earth's surface and subsurface and the use of stratigraphy, structural geology and paleontology to tell the sequence of these events. Historical geology or paleogeology is a discipline that uses the principles and techniques of geology to reconstruct and understand the geological history of Earth. Wikipedia (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:

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