La Geologia regional, clau de volta del mètode geològic

Abstract

Since the early stages of modern geology, the method developed by geologists of the wernerian school has given a fundamental role to regional geology in relation to both, historical geology and causal or process geology. The development of regional geology led to geological maps, since then the most extended tool to sinthetically communicate phenomenological informations of regional nature. Nowadays, regional geology is largely present in the different fields of geology, and is a keystone of the geological method because of the essentially historical and regional nature of geology. It constitutes a first step in geological interpretation which can be interpreted in terms of historical geology, explained in terms of causal geology, or be used in the production of causal theory, with which it maintains a necessary iterative relationship in the advance of the geological thought.