Earth science

Earth science

Any of several geological sciences that are concerned with the earth, its origins, and all of its various structures and physical forms and phenomena.

7Categories 223518Terms

Add a new term

Contributors in Earth science

Become a Contributors

Earth science > Mapping science

ambient

Earth science; Mapping science

Referring to a characteristic of a surrounding medium e.g., ambient pressure, ambient temperature.

Adams' rhombic conformal map projection

Earth science; Mapping science

A conformal map projection mapping a sphere or hemisphere into a rhombus having one opposite pair of angles equal to 60° and the other pair equal to 120°. The complex function ...

prismatic astrolabe

Earth science; Mapping science

An astrolabe consisting of a telescope with a prism and artificial horizon attached at its objective end so that only objects near one specific angular elevation can be observed. ...

normal base line

Earth science; Mapping science

The line following the sinuosities of the low-water mark, except where indentations are encountered that fall within the category of true bays, when the base line becomes a ...

magnetic azimuth

Earth science; Mapping science

The angle, at the point of observation, between the vertical plane through the observed object and the vertical plane in which a freely suspended, sym-metrically magnetized ...

angle of yaw

Earth science; Mapping science

(1) The angle between the direction in which a craft is moving and the longitudinal axis of the craft. (2) The angle between the projection, onto a horizontal plane, of the ...