Ashbrook (2003) opines that we have often heard arguments between geologists and physical geographers as to the differences in their disciplines? As scientists, we should be addressing similarities and forgo the folly of academic preeminence of disciplines. Recurrently, physical geographers encounter geologists who acknowledge certain areas of physical geography as being "geology related," but vigorously refuse to recognize those physical geographers as colleagues in the same disciplinary field. Moreover, we frequently hear that physical geography is "this" while geology is "that." Many geologists are past due in recognizing the fact that geography is not necessarily memorizing the states and their capitals nor is it a watered-down version of geology, somehow lacking any analytically systematized approach to research and scholarship. Likewise, physical geographers need co recognize that geology is not necessarily memorizing rocks and minerals, and geologists, too, use a spatial (geographic) approach for understanding our planet.
The disciplines of physical geography and of geology are multifaceted earth sciences. It is correct to say each discipline constantly paraphrases the other Geology has several specialty areas that are removed from physical geography and vice versa. However, numerous topics not only overlap, they are, by literal definition, exactly the same subject. That subject, from both a physical geography perspective and a geology perspective, is the study of the Earth - geology. To suggest that physical geography and geology are not comparable is to limit both disciplines and their disciples to a select set of reprogrammed information, which creates academic tunnel vision and hinders our understanding of planet Earth.
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[An even larger issue was identified by Campbell and Lehr in 1973 as the technical isolation between industrial fields of geologists. such as environmental geologists, engineering geologists, mining geologists, and petroleum geologists and geophysicists. See: https://i2mconsultants.com/water-well-technology/ Mr. Campbell again recognized another form of professional isolation in publications in 2018, see: https://i2mconsultants.com/downloads/corp/ijeg-1000102.pdf].
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