KEMENTERIAN PENDIDIKAN DAN KEBUDAYAAN

UNIVERSITAS HASANUDDIN
FAKULTAS TEKNIK
JURUSAN TEKNIK GEOLOGI
PROGRAM STUDI TEKNIK GEOLOGI

GEOLOGI SEJARAH
RANGKUMAN TEXTBOOK EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH : CHAPTER 14

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: D611 12 007

MAKASSAR
2014

EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH

Chapter I : Time and Terestial Change

Benjamin Franklin advised that the only thing certain is death and taxes, but
change in greatest certainly of all. Even if you have not experienced personally
anything so dramatic as an earthquake or a flood, from the news you know that
volcano like Mt. St. Helen suddenly erupt after long periode of silence, and history
lesson recall past dramatic earth change. Life on earth also has changed, and the
biblical story of Noahs Flood.
Dramatic Geology Event in Human History
Dramatic events like volcanic eruptions, earthquake, river, flood dan tsunamis
greatly impressed early people, leading naturally to catastrophic view of earth
history.
In August of 1883 after 200 year of dormancy, small volcanic island name
Krakatoa located between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia dissapeard in what was long
considered the most violent explosion ever withness by humanity.
Subtle events producing slow geologic changes, such as the rise or fall sea level
and the gentel warping up (uplift) and down (subsidence) of the earth crust were
long overlooked.
Most geologic phenomena must be measured on scale unfamiliar to the
layperson. For example, although a five-hundred-years-flood is rare event on the
human scale of years and decade, it is commonplace on the geologic scale of many
time.

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