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. dynamics (discipline)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Disciplines
4. disciplines
5. science and related disciplines
6. science
7. natural sciences
8. physical sciences
9. earth sciences
10. geology

Anotations

Scope note:

In geology, the discipline that studies and predicts the nature and operation of the forces by which the earth's surface are affected, as distinguished from the existing condition of the surface and the order and characteristics of the strata.