Chronology in Chorology

building a temporal perspective

Abstract

Geomorphology, as a traditional subfield of the geographical knowledge, foregrounds, by essence, the spatial character of the phenomena conjoined with the inherent dynamics of the terrestrial surface. However, in order to comprehend its respective morphologies it is required that we compile them, not only in space, but, fundamentally, through time. Since the world dissociated itself from the fine and finite history proclaimed by the holy writ and opened up an immensity never conceived by man, the studies related to the processual performance were catapulted to another order of analysis. Thereby, the goal of the present work is to evidence that the perspective of the geological time was historically built and that the methodological outcomes arisen from it ended up determining that natural science, also, by the light of the contingent
studies, typical of an essentially historicized field.