Paleogeography
Paleogeography is a science that studies physical and geographical situations, their dynamics, sources of this dynamics - climate changes, tectonic movements - on the Earth's surface in the geological past. Paleogeography is: ▪ part of historical geology, which provides material for studying the history of the Earth's crust and the Earth as a whole; ▪ part of the general physical geography that studies the physical and geographical conditions of the past for understanding the modern nature of the Earth. Methods of paleogeography are based mainly on detailed ...