人类对地球的认识是从其所生存的大陆开始的。长期来的认识、实践、再认识的结果,逐步形成了地球科学以及其分支学科(如矿床学,成矿学等)的一系列理论、原理与设想。这些地质学上的许多概念虽然由于研究手段的改进还在不断的修正、补充、扩大与深化。但许多传统观念已广为人们所接受,并被 Humankind’s understanding of the Earth begins with the continent in which it lives. Long-term understanding, practice, re-understanding of the results, and gradually formed a series of earth sciences and its branches (such as ore deposits, mineralogy, etc.) a series of theories, principles and ideas. Although many of these geologic concepts are constantly being revised, supplemented, expanded and deepened due to the improvement of research methods. But many traditional ideas have become widely accepted and accepted by many people