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Geology represents the fundamentals of human society, providing the structural, economical and energy foundation of the human society, with all its influences in social, politics and military processes, today and in the past. Geological factors influenced the evolution and the history of the human species and they controlled permanently its expansion and changes it recorded during the past, from the Cognitive Revolution, to the Agricultural and Industrial revolutions. Due to its fundamental significance, Geology lays the foundations of the contemporary global society, having even the same significance for understanding and exploiting other bodies of the solar system.

The fields of Geology are today numerous, complex and they represent the expected evolution of this scientific field. Geology is a hard-science, next to Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc., with a wide array of direct and indirect (geophysical) research methods. These methods, next to its types of proxies and next to its thinking and publishing mechanisms, make Geology a robust, strong and fascinating science.

Geology includes physics-chemistry and mineralogical research fields (Crystallography, Mineralogy, Magmatic, Metamorphic and Sedimentary Petrology, Metalogeny, Sedimentology, Geochemistry, Marine Geology, Vulcanology, Gemology, Speleology), palaeontological research fields (Palaeobotany, Palynology, Palaeozoology, Micropalaeontology, Palaeoecology, Stratigraphy, Historical Geology), tectonics and structural research fields (Structural Geology, Plate tectonics, Basin analysis, Palaeogeography) and geophysical research fields (Gravimetry, Electrometry, Radiometry, Magnetism, Geothermy, Remote sensing, Seismology). Also, the applied fields of Geology are essential for the development of the human society: Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology, Environmental Geology, Coal Geology, Oil and Gas Geology, Metalliferous and Non-Metalliferous ores, Geology of radioactive elements, Geology of construction and ornamental rocks, Geohazard, etc.