Change of epochs in Earth sciences

Abstract

[1]  The present work tells about the author’s views regarding the two subjects. The first subject — the emergence of the new epochs in the Earth sciences, namely the epochs of geophysics and geoinformatics (previously there were two epochs in the Earth sciences — the epoch of geography and the epoch of geology). The second subject — the formation of the principally new theory of potential fields interpretation (gravitational and magnetic anomalies).

Received 21 February 2007; revised 30 February 2007; accepted 22 March 2007; published 10 August 2007.

Keywords: epochs in earth sciences, geoinformatics, gravity field analysis.

Index Terms: 0520 Computational Geophysics: Data analysis: algorithms and implementation; 0903 Exploration Geophysics: Computational methods: potential fields; 0920 Exploration Geophysics: Gravity methods; 1217 Geodesy and Gravity: Time variable gravity; 3200 Mathematical Geophysics.

Citation: Strakhov, V. N. (2007), Change of epochs in Earth sciences, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 9, ES1001, doi:10.2205/2007ES000217.