Published Resources Details
Book Section
- Title
- The history of geological mapping in Australia
- In
- Some sources for the history of Australian science: six papers presented at a workshop on the history of science in Australia
- Imprint
- History Project Incorporated, Kensington (N.S.W.), 1984, pp. 33-46
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0949776181
- Abstract
The history of geological mapping in Australia covers some 150 years of the development of Australian science. Beginning in a period of geographical exploration it can be considered in a number of distinct time slots: (1) 1835-1850, (2) 1850-1870, (3) 1870- 1932, (4) 1932-1950, (5) 1950-1969, (6) 1969-present .
However before embarking on an analysis of this history it is first necessary to define what exactly is a geo l ogical map . In the broadest sense it is a two-dimensional representation of the
relations and changes through time of the materials which constitute a portion of the earth's crust. The compression of space and time involved in such a representation calls for a considerable grasp of the concepts of geology and the ability to convey the ideas of such concepts by means of symbols , patterns and colours.Geological data are essentially of two types (a) observational and (b) experimental. The observations are qual itative statements concerning natural objects or events, and numerical measurements of these objects or events, while the experimental data consist of quantitative measurements under controlled laboratory conditions. The geological map developed essentially to record , synthesize and present observational data, but today it is moving beyond this state.
Related Published resources
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- Borchardt, D. H. ed., Some sources for the history of Australian science: six papers presented at a workshop on the history of Australian science organized by the Australian academy of Science. 24-25 August 1982 (Kensington, N.S.W.: History Project Incorporated, 1984), 81 pp. Details