Disciplines and Occupations

Earth Sciences

Fields of science encompassing studies and research from the disciplines of PHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; and MATHEMATICS; that are related to the planet EARTH. Subfields include atmospheric chemistry; CLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; geophysics; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; mineralogy; and seismology.

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Fields of science encompassing studies and research from the disciplines of PHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; and MATHEMATICS; that are related to the planet EARTH. Subfields include atmospheric chemistry; CLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; geophysics; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; mineralogy; and seismology.

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Earth Science
  • Geoscience
  • Geosciences
  • Science, Earth
  • Sciences, Earth

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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use for the discipline (education, history, etc) only

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History Note

2010

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  1. H01w.277w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Earth Sciences. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D056448. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D056448
  2. Earth Sciences. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_science
  3. Earth Sciences. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8008