In another 10 million years, according to the textbook " Physical Geology, " by university professors Brian Skinner and Stephen Porter, those rocks will lie somewhere just west of San Francisco-- with the rest of the Los Angeles area.
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His lectures to working men, given in 1863 in the Museum of Practical Geology, formed the nucleus of his " Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain " ( 5th ed ., 1878; 6th ed ., by H . B . Woodward, 1894 ).
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In the same year he was elected a Sir Andrew Ramsay, with his " Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain " were maintaining the supreme importance of denudation in the configuration of land surfaces, and particularly the erosion of valleys by the action of running water.
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For an aspiring geologist, training typically includes significant coursework in physics, mathematics, and chemistry, in addition to classes offered through the geology department; historical and physical geology, igneous and metamorphic petrology and petrography, hydrogeology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, mineralogy, palaeontology, physical geography and structural geology are among the many required areas of study.
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A master in the broader questions of stratigraphy and physical geology, he was a deal exponent of facts, but rather impatient of details, while his original and often bold theories, expressed both in lectures and in writings, stirred others with enthusiasm and undoubtedly exercised great influence on the progress of geology.
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He was educated at the Aberdeen Grammar School and University of Aberdeen ( John Murray of Challenger fame, and throughout his life he was an ardent student of Physical Geology, and in particular of the relation of geology to scenery and the economic applications of geological investigations " ( " Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh " ).
