CONTENTS -- Part One: Introduction -- Part Two: Statics -- Part Three: Dynamics -- Part Four: Conclusion -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION - THE USE OF GEOLOGY -- Two Views in Contention -- Geology and Geosciences -- Statics and Dynamics in Geology -- Statics -- Dynamics -- The Wide Variety of Geological Methods -- Field Methods -- Laboratory Methods -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Catastrophe Argument -- The Uniformity Argument -- The Revision Argument -- The Resettlement Argument -- The Resettlement Theory of Geology -- Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic) -- The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- In Conversation with My Previous Books -- Case Studies and Examples -- Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis -- Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations -- The Use of Neologisms -- PART TWO Statics -- CHAPTER 2. STATICS AND ITS CONTINGENCY -- The Durability of Statics -- Statics and the Mind -- Gestalt Psychology, and the Perception of Geological Structures -- Cemetery Rocks, and the Geology of Fear -- Statics and Nature -- The Debate on Tectonic Plates -- The Contention on Rock Classification -- Statics and Society -- Economic Geology, and the Social Use of Resources -- Hydrogeology, and the Technological Limits in Society -- Statics and Culture -- Fieldwork, and the Methodological Culture in Geology -- Geology, Paleontology, and the Classificatory Tradition -- The Changeability of Statics.

PART THREE Dynamics -- CHAPTER 3. DYNAMICS AND ITS RESTRICTION -- The Strength of Dynamics -- Dynamics and the Mind -- Geology, and the Controversy about Feminine Intuition -- Geology, and the Rediscovery of the Mind -- Dynamics and Nature -- Volcanic Ejection, and Its Impact -- Earthquake, and Its Power -- Dynamics and Society -- Technology, and the Debate on Relative vs. Absolute Dating -- Engineering Geology, and the Protection of Life and Property -- Dynamics and Culture -- Historical Geology, and the Nature of Cultural Contingency -- Geological Time, and the Use/Misuse of Metaphors -- The Weakness of Dynamics -- PART FOUR Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION - THE FUTURE OF GEOLOGY -- Beyond Uniformity, Catastrophe, and Reivison -- 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle -- 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle -- 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle -- 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle -- 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle -- 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle -- 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle -- 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle -- 9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle -- 10th Thesis: The Theory-Praxis Principle -- 11th Thesis: The Convention-5ovelty Principle -- 12th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle -- 13th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle -- 14th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle -- 15th Thesis: The Same-Difference Principle -- 16th Thesis: The Post-Human Resettlement -- Beyond Earth Geology -- Three Great Future Transformations of Geology -- Enormous Implications -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.