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Classification Structure - Division 260000 - Earth Sciences
Division 260000 - Earth Sciences, covers the earth sciences. This division has seven disciplines:
260200 - Geophysics 260300 - Geochemistry 260400 - Oceanography 260500 - Hydrology 260600 - Atmospheric Sciences 269900 - Other Earth Sciences Exclusions: (a) Environmental and atmospheric chemistry are included in Discipline 259900 Other Chemical Sciences; (b) mining and mineral processing are included in Discipline 290700 Resources Engineering; (c) metallurgy is included in Discipline 291300 Metallurgy; (d) materials engineering is included in Discipline 291400 Materials Engineering; and (e) soil and water sciences (incl. applied hydrology) are included in Discipline 300100 Soil and Water Sciences. Discipline 260100 - Geology This discipline covers geology. It includes palaeontology (incl. palaeozoology and palaeobotany) and palynology (other than palynology associated with palaeoecological studies). This discipline has sixteen subjects:
260102 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology 260103 - Vulcanology 260104 - Sedimentology 260105 - Petroleum Geology 260106 - Ore Deposit Petrology 260107 - Structural Geology 260108 - Geotectonics 260109 - Geochronology 260110 - Biostratigraphy 260111 - Other Stratigraphy (incl. Sequence Stratigraphy) 260112 - Palaeontology 260113 - Palynology 260114 - Geomorphology 260115 - Glaciology 260199 - Geology not elsewhere classified Exclusions: (a) The chemical aspects of crystallography and solid state chemistry are included in Discipline 250200 Inorganic Chemistry; (b) palaeoclimatology is included in Discipline 260600 Atmospheric Sciences; (c) palaeoecology and palynology associated with palaeoecological studies are included in Discipline 270700 Ecology and Evolution; (d) palynology associated with limnological studies is also included in Discipline 270700 Ecology and Evolution; (e) mining and mineral processing are included in Discipline 290700 Resources Engineering; (f) metallurgy is included in Discipline 291300 Metallurgy; and (g) materials engineering is included in Discipline 291400 Materials Engineering. Discipline 260200 - Geophysics This discipline covers geophysics. This discipline has eight subjects:
260202 - Geomagnetism 260203 - Electromagnetism 260204 - Petrophysics 260205 - Explosion Seismology 260206 - Earthquake Seismology 260207 - Radiometrics 260299 - Geophysics not elsewhere classified Discipline 260300 - Geochemistry This discipline covers geochemistry. This discipline has five subjects:
260302 - Exploration Geochemistry 260303 - Organic Geochemistry not elsewhere classified 260304 - Inorganic Geochemistry not elsewhere classified 260399 - Geochemistry not elsewhere classified Discipline 260400 - Oceanography This discipline covers oceanography. This discipline has four subjects:
260402 - Chemical Oceanography 260403 - Physical Oceanography 260499 - Oceanography not elsewhere classified Exclusions: Marine ecology is included in Discipline 270700 Ecology and Evolution. Discipline 260500 - Hydrology This discipline covers hydrology, other than applied hydrology. This discipline has three subjects:
260502 - Surfacewater Hydrology 260599 - Hydrology not elsewhere classified Exclusions: Applied hydrology is included in Discipline 300100 Soil and Water Sciences. Discipline 260600 - Atmospheric Sciences This discipline covers atmospheric sciences, other than atmospheric chemistry. This discipline has four subjects:
260602 - Climatology (incl. Palaeoclimatology) 260603 - Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Physics 260699 - Atmospheric Sciences not elsewhere classified Exclusions: Atmospheric chemistry is included in Discipline 259900 Other Chemical Sciences. Discipline 269900 - Other Earth Sciences This discipline covers earth sciences not elsewhere classified. It includes physical geography. This discipline has two subjects:
269999 - Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified Exclusions: (a) The physical aspects of limnology are included in Discipline 270700 Ecology and Evolution; and (b) environmental management and rehabilitation are included in Discipline 300800 Environmental Sciences.
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