Various dating methods have been used and are used today depending on local geology and context, and while there is some variance in the results from these dating methods, nearly all of them provide evidence for a very old Earth, approximately 4. 6 billion years.

It is in a sense structural geology on a planet scale, and is used throughout structural geology as a framework to analyze and understand global, regional, and local scale features.

Its growth environment is referred to as its terroir, and includes not only the adjacent plants, but also the climate, geography, and local geology.

Within these categories many museums specialize further, e. g. museums of modern art, folk art, local history, military history, aviation history, philately, agriculture or geology.

The local geology suggests the presence of valuable mineral deposits.

The Swaffham Museum contains an exhibition on local history and local geology as well as an egyptology room charting the life of Howard Carter.

Suzanne's geological expertise allowed River Wrangellers to provide not only a world class rafting experience but also a unique insight into the local geology, ecosystems and history.

Opened in 1981, it is home to an amphitheater, nature trails, and a stocked fishing pond, as well as the Interpretive Center, a small museum which features ice age fossil and local geology exhibits.

The Oil Patch Museum, located just north of I-70 Exit 184, houses exhibits on area geology and the history of local petroleum drilling, production, and transportation.

Most were built with materials reflecting the local geology of the area.

The local geology of the Silver City area is complex.

The local geology of the Irwell Valley, which included steep sided valleys with fast flowing rivers subject to rapid flooding and dry seasons, confined local river transport to the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, west of Manchester.

Farnham's history and present status are mainly the result of its geography ; a combination of river, streams, fresh water springs and varied soils, together with a temperate climate, attracted early man to the area and, even today, the geology of the area greatly influences the town, both in terms of communications, scenic and botanic variety and the main local industries of agriculture and minerals extraction.

In order to assess the potential impact of diagenesis on archaeological or fossil bones, many factors need to be assessed, beginning with elemental and mineralogical composition of bone and enveloping soil, as well as the local burial environment ( geology, climatology, groundwater ).

The geology of the local area is complex, since the river leaves the chalk of the Mole Gap at this point and flows over gravel and clay, creating a patchwork of different habitats including scrub, woodland, hedges, banks, and meadows as well as the water itself.

The local geology is complex and incorporates some of the oldest rocks in England-a notable fault is named after the town.

The gamma ray log is also useful to detect coal beds, which, depending on the local geology, can have either low radiation levels, or high radiation levels due to adsorption of uranium.

The regional geology and seismology setting is first examined for sources and patterns of earthquake occurrence, both in depth and at the at the surface from seismometer records ; secondly, the impacts from these sources are assessed relative to local geologic rock and soil types, slope angle and groundwater conditions.

Water quality depends on the local geology and ecosystem, as well as human uses such as sewage dispersion, industrial pollution, use of water bodies as a heat sink, and overuse ( which may lower the level of the water ).

* Kendal Museum-one of the oldest in the country, it includes exhibits on area history, culture, archaeology, geology, local and world natural history, Roman Britain, Ancient Egypt

Sale's local drift geology consists of sand and gravel deposited about 10, 000 years ago, during the last ice age.

It covers the history and geology of the region, and offers exhibitions and a local archive.

The term ' Permian Komi language ' was proposed and it is used nowadays ( alongside with the old term ) in local mass-media, in scientific papers and in the Komi-Permyak Wikipedia.

In later Permian time, the Toroweap Basin was invaded by the warm, shallow edge of the vast Panthalassa ocean in what local geologists call the Kaibab Sea.

As of August, 2012, KMID has yet to offer local news and other local programming in HD unlike the competitive NBC and CBS local affiliates in the Permian Basin.

At this time Cook employed local pilots to point out the " rocks and hidden dangers " along the south and west coasts.

Over 80 % of these were iron and stony-iron meteorites, which are easily distinguished from local rocks.

The following day, with local villagers still attempting a rescue, the Cruizer class brig-sloop HMS Primrose hit the northern end of these rocks.

Crevasses and pockets, local topography of the rocks, would hold fine materials and harbour plant roots.

The architecture was often a mixture of styles in timber cut from local forests, and stone hewn from local rocks.

The great local mountain Mount Diablo has been formed and continues to be elevated by compressive forces resulting from the action of plate tectonics and at its upper reaches presents ancient seabed rocks scraped from distant oceanic sedimentation locations and accumulated and lifted by these great forces.

Some other early dwellings were built of tar paper or local rocks.

Annette Otts is a local artist who paints fine art on canvas and rocks.

Until the 1990s, the main commercial block of the town along highway 178 was a somewhat picturesque street of older buildings constructed of fitted local rocks and bricks, including a vintage post office, and cafe, 3 bars, and a small Chinese restaurant.

Inspired by Dinsmoor, local resident Florence Deeble constructed a rock garden around her home, using rocks acquired during her travels to construct works representing places she visited.

The community was given its name by William Gragg, its first postmaster, because local scientist Wiliam Bobbitt spent time there analyzing rocks.

" Cassadaga " is a Seneca Indian name meaning " water under the rocks ", descriptive not only of the natural springs of the area flowing from glacial moraines, but that in dry weather, many of the local streams would ' disappear ': the spring fed water running wholly within the gravelly bottom of the stream beds draining from the surrounding hills.

The traditional story that Panama got its name from had been across the Isthmus of Panama, and said local rock formations reminded him of Panama's rocks.

Delineation and identification of potential source rocks depends on studies of the local stratigraphy, palaeogeography and sedimentology to determine the likelihood of organic-rich sediments having been deposited in the past.

Incensed members of the local aristocracy had attempted to quell the indecorum by firing shots in the air ; met with rocks and stones, they turned their guns on the crowd and killed several peasants.

Since rock climbing became an activity distinct from mountaineering in the 20th century, it is usually possible to trace the entire history of an area, generally starting with a few local climbers using the area as " practice rocks " in preparation for mountaineering expeditions.

Some trace fossils can be used as local index fossils, to date the rocks in which they are found, such as the burrow Arenicolites franconicus which occurs only in a 4 cm ( 1. 6 ") layer of the Triassic Muschelkalk epoch, throughout wide areas in southern Germany.

It travelled great distances within the ice sheets and glaciers, so individual rocks, whether on the ground, or within the great lengths of stone walls of the Park, may be local stone, or may be a specimen from northern Britain or even from northern Europe.

The museum also houses a forestry section, which has specimens of timbers grown in the Bombay Presidency ( British India ), and one exhibiting a small local geological collection of rocks, minerals and fossils.

Here rocks near the surface cause over-falls and local whirlpools, which can be of considerable danger in themselves and cause small boats to founder on the rocks.

Nasogaluak, of Tuktoyaktuk, personally chose the rocks for the structure from a local quarry near Monterrey.

Buckland was born at Axminster in Devon and, as a child, would accompany his father, the Rector of Templeton and Trusham, on his walks where interest in road improvements led to collecting fossil shells, including ammonites, from the Jurassic lias rocks exposed in local quarries.