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Discipline field groups earth scientists by the branch of science each one actually practiced. Wikipedia describes Alfred Wegener as "a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher," a scientist whose work spanned several fields at once. This dimension shows which fields have produced the people behind a given discovery.

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is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through planetary bodies. 1
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1. Seismology (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationSeismology, lead section, definition sentence (scientist-field bucket)
Quote, Seismology, lead section, definition sentence (scientist-field bucket)
is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through planetary bodies.
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