Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Disciplines (hierarchy name)
4. disciplines (concept)
5. [science and related disciplines]
6. science (modern discipline)
7. natural sciences
8. physical sciences
9. earth sciences
10. geology

Anotations

Scope note:

Science that deals with the land and submarine relief features of the earth's surface and seeks a generic interpretation of them using the principles of geology in its descriptive aspects and of structural geology in its explanatory phases.