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This group covers geology. It includes palaeontology, including palaeozoology, palaeobotany and palynology, other than that associated with palaeoecological studies.
This group has fifteen fields:

040301 Basin Analysis
040302 Extraterrestrial Geology
040303 Geochronology
040304 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
040305 Marine Geoscience
040306 Mineralogy and Crystallography
040307 Ore Deposit Petrology
040308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
040309 Petroleum and Coal Geology
040310 Sedimentology
040311 Stratigraphy (incl. Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy)
040312 Structural Geology
040313 Tectonics
040314 Volcanology
040399 Geology not elsewhere classified

Exclusions:
a) Planetary science other than extraterrestrial geology is included in Group 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences.
b) Solid state chemistry and the chemical aspects of crystallography are included in Group 0302 Inorganic Chemistry.
c) Oceanography is included in Group 0405 Oceanography.
d) Palaeoclimatology is included in Group 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience.
e) Palaeontology associated with palaeoecological studies is included in Group 0602 Ecology.
f) Materials engineering is included in Group 0912 Materials Engineering.
g) Mining, mineral processing and metallurgy are included in Group 0914 Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy.