On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, David G. Smith PE PLS<[email protected]> wrote: > Seems "geo" got broadened out beyond our earth to planetary study long ago - > after all, scientists have been using the same approaches used in > earth-based geology, geophysics, geodesy, geography and other 'geo' fields > of study to extraterrestrial objects (wherever appropriate), such as moons, > rocky planets, and so on for several decades now. Rather than invent new > terminology, they stuck with the existing. >
Can't have been that long ago as my degree is in Geophysics and Planetary Physics (well OK that was a while back) but there is also the UCLA center of the same name http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/ So my view would be there is no consensus. Ian _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
