Talk:Earth science

I'm nigh certain that not all hydrology is salt-water hydrology. Is there a reason it was filed under oceanography? --Aguido Horatio Davis 06:49, 11 April 2007 (CDT)

A number of sources suggest that it is. It is not written in stone though, Should we make it a separate discipline or a subdiscipline of another discipline? The work is in progress, which is true of all these article. Let me know what we need to do with it. Thomas Simmons 13:42, 12 April, 2007 (EPT)

Future development

At some point, as the articles for the subcategories are written, the myriad subdivisions should be relegated to internal links to those articles and the subject herein developed more along the lines of the Biology article. At this point, however, this article serves as an introduction and outline to the subject to let the reader know what the topic basically encompasses and authors will be able to develop a cohesive collection of related articles from a coherent outline. Thomas Simmons 15:32, 12 April, 2007 (EPT)

I suggest the chapter "Disciplines and sub-disciplines" should be reduced to a list of links quite soon. Viable text for single disciplines could be already moved to the relative articles (e.g. we can start the article "Sedimentary Geology" and use the text posted in Earth Sciences as a stub for the new article). Most terms of the lists will appear as red links of course.

Two sections or chapters instead I believe should be here: one giving a hint to the greater theories of Earth sciences (e.g., plate tectonics), the other about major challenges and currently debated problems (e.g., global warming). The purpose is to give the reader an idea of what Earth Sciences is about, extensive explanations of those hot topics may later have their own articles.

Other ideas? --Nereo Preto 09:13, 14 April 2007 (CDT)