{"id":21,"date":"2017-05-10T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/part\/chapter-1-introduction-to-geology\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T22:18:47","slug":"introduction-to-geology","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/part\/introduction-to-geology\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 1. Introduction to Geology","rendered":"Chapter 1. Introduction to Geology"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_20\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"700\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/part\/introduction-to-geology\/sk_badlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"wp-image-20\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/kzlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/360\/2017\/08\/SK_badlands.png\" alt=\"Badlands in southern Saskatchewan. Erosion has exposed layers of rock going back more than 65 million years.\" width=\"700\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a> <strong>Figure 1.1<\/strong> Badlands in southern Saskatchewan. Erosion has exposed layers of rock going back more than 65 million years. <em>Source: Karla Panchuk (2017) CC BY-SA 4.0. Click the image for more attributions.<br \/><\/em>[\/caption]\r\n<h1>Chapter Goals<\/h1>\r\nComplete this chapter so you can:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Explain what geology is, and why we study Earth.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe the kinds of work geologists do.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Explain what geological time is.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Explain how the principle of uniformitarianism allows us to translate observations about Earth today into knowledge about how Earth worked in the past.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Summarize the main idea behind the theory of plate tectonics.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/part\/introduction-to-geology\/sk_badlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/kzlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/360\/2017\/08\/SK_badlands.png\" alt=\"Badlands in southern Saskatchewan. Erosion has exposed layers of rock going back more than 65 million years.\" width=\"700\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/360\/2017\/08\/SK_badlands.png 720w, https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/360\/2017\/08\/SK_badlands-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/360\/2017\/08\/SK_badlands-65x44.png 65w, https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/360\/2017\/08\/SK_badlands-225x153.png 225w, https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/360\/2017\/08\/SK_badlands-350x239.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Figure 1.1<\/strong> Badlands in southern Saskatchewan. Erosion has exposed layers of rock going back more than 65 million years. <em>Source: Karla Panchuk (2017) CC BY-SA 4.0. Click the image for more attributions.<br \/><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Chapter Goals<\/h1>\n<p>Complete this chapter so you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explain what geology is, and why we study Earth.<\/li>\n<li>Describe the kinds of work geologists do.<\/li>\n<li>Explain what geological time is.<\/li>\n<li>Explain how the principle of uniformitarianism allows us to translate observations about Earth today into knowledge about how Earth worked in the past.<\/li>\n<li>Summarize the main idea behind the theory of plate tectonics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false,"pb_part_invisible_string":""},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-21","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/21\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/physicalgeologyh5p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}