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GEO 000Belonging to the Subject; not further Classified

GEO 001Geoscience in General

GEO 010Geography

GEO 030Physical Geography

GEO 050Anthropogeography / Human Geography

GEO 070Economic Geography

GEO 080Commercial Geography / Geography of Trade

GEO 090Traffic Geography

GEO 100Social Geography

GEO 110Historical Geography

GEO 120Cultural Geography; Studies of Cultivated Landscapes

GEO 130Applied Geography

GEO 140Atlases

GEO 145Maps

GEO 150Regional Geography

GEO 300Geology

GEO 310General Geology

GEO 320Applied Geology (Soil Development and Soils)

GEO 330Regional Geology and Mineralogy

GEO 360Tectonics

GEO 370Historical Geology; Stratigraphy and Paleontology

GEO 400Mineralogy (Comprehensive)

GEO 420Crystallography

GEO 430Geochemistry (in General: Earth Structure, Development of the Earthand Element Distribution), including Regional Geochemistry

GEO 440Petrology and Petrography of Crystalline Rock (in General)

GEO 450Systematic and General Geology of Mineral Deposits and Ecological Geology(excluding (Crude) Oil Geology and Coal Geology) (GEO 326)

GEO 460Mining

GEO 470Sedimentology and Sedimentpetrography

GEO 500Geophysics

GEO 530Geomagnetism

GEO 540Geoelectricity; Magnetotellurics

GEO 550Seismology; Seismics

GEO 560Structure and Characteristics of the Earth's Interior

GEO 570Hydrospheric Physics

GEO 600Atmospheric Physics

GEO 610Atmospheric Optics

GEO 620Atmospheric Electricity

GEO 640Ionospheric Physics

GEO 660Magnetospheric Physics

GEO 700Meteorology

GEO 000: Belonging to the Subject; not further Classified
GEO 001: Geoscience in General

Photogrammetry, see BAU 950
- GEO 003: Training and Career
- GEO 005: Geoscientific Societies and Institutions
- GEO 007: Geoscientific Methods (Remote Sensing, GIS...)
- GEO 008: Expeditions (Letters, Travelogues,...)
GEO 010: Geography
- GEO 011: Complete Overview
- GEO 013: Geographical Onomastics; Gazetteers
- GEO 015: Functions; Methods; Classification of Geography
- GEO 017: Realisation of Expeditions; Field-Trips (General Instructions for Observation; Fieldwork, ...)
- GEO 019: Methodology and Didactics of Lessons / Coursework in Geography
- GEO 020: Climatic Geography
GEO 030: Physical Geography
- GEO 031: Hydrogeography
- GEO 032: Biogeography
  - GEO 035: Phytogeography
    - GEO 036: Principles of Vegetation Geography (Floristic, Genetic and Ecological Geobotany)
    - GEO 037: Spatial / Landscape Analysis in Vegetation Geography / Geomatics
    - GEO 038: Regional Phytogeography(Vegetational Landscapes, Phytogeographical Classifications of the Earth...)
    - GEO 039: Other
  - GEO 040: Zoogeography
    
    Zoogeography,Paleobiogeography see also BIO 710
    - GEO 041: Ecological Zoogeography (Bioregions and Fauna, Animal Migration, ...)
    - GEO 042: Cultural Zoogeography (Man and Beast, Domestic and Working Animals, ....)
    - GEO 043: Regional Zoogeography (Fauna Habitat Zones, Animal Distribution Regions, ...)
  - GEO 045: General Natural Landscape Studies
    - GEO 046: Landscape Elements, Landscape Typology, Landscape Systematics; Methods of Classification
    - GEO 047: Landscape Ecology
    - GEO 048: Classification of Nature Areas
    - GEO 049: Other
GEO 050: Anthropogeography / Human Geography
- GEO 051: Population Geography
  - GEO 052: Distribution of Human Beings Throughout the World (Ethnic Classification, People, Culture Groups, ...)
  - GEO 053: Indigenous Peoples; Nomads; Migration
  - GEO 054: Human Settlement Areas of the World; Limits of Ecumenism
  - GEO 055: Adaptation to Climates, Climate Change, and Regions: Nutrition under Various Climatic Conditions
  - GEO 056: Spread of Diseases and Influence of the Geographical Environment (Geomedicine)
  - GEO 057: Emigration and Immigration; Internal and Pendular Migration
  - GEO 058: Rural Exodus, Migration from Rural Oases, from Islands, from Mountains to Urban Areas; Urbanization
  - GEO 059: Other
- GEO 060: Settlement Geography
  - GEO 061: Settlements According to Geographical Distribution and Location (Individual Settlements, Group Settlements, ...)
  - GEO 062: Settlements According to Function (Monastic Settlements, Administrative Settlements, Winter Sports Settlements, ...)
  - GEO 063: Settlement Features; Range of Settlement Types; Settlement Layout / Floor Plans; Settlement Elevations
  - GEO 064: Facilities; Infrastructure
  - GEO 065: Rural Settlements
  - GEO 066: Special Forms of Settlement (Suburbs / Outskirts, Shopping Malls, ...)
  - GEO 067: Urban Geography
    - GEO 068: City Classification (District, Residential Area, Local Government,slum …)
  - GEO 069: Other
GEO 070: Economic Geography
- GEO 071: Agricultural Geography(Cultivation Methods,types of Forms, Reallocation of Agricultural Land)
- GEO 072: Geography of Forestry and Timber Industry
- GEO 073: Geography of Fisheries
- GEO 074: Geography of Mining and Energy Industries (Useful Minerals / Natural Resources, Crude Oil / Petroleum, Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy, ...)
- GEO 075: Skilled Trades; Trade / Commerce
- GEO 076: Geography of Industrial Practice
  - GEO 077: Industrial Zones / Areas, Sites; Site-Related / Location Factors
- GEO 078: Economic Areas and Classification According to Economic Area
- GEO 079: Other
GEO 080: Commercial Geography / Geography of Trade
- GEO 081: Commercial Sites / Trade Locations
- GEO 083: Trade / Commerce and Merchandise
- GEO 085: Commercial Policy
- GEO 087: Commercial Areas
- GEO 089: Other
GEO 090: Traffic Geography
- GEO 091: Modes of Transport; Means of Transport; Traffic Routes
  - GEO 092: Road and Inland Traffic
  - GEO 093: Sea Transport / Traffic
  - GEO 094: Air Transport / Traffic
  - GEO 095: Rush-Hour and Commuter Traffic
  - GEO 096: Recreational Traffic and Tourism
    
    Tourism in Land-Use Planning see RPL 818
  - GEO 097: Communication and Capital Flows
- GEO 098: Traffic Areas
- GEO 099: Other
GEO 100: Social Geography
- GEO 101: Analytical Social Geography
- GEO 102: Systematic Social Geography
- GEO 103: Classification of Social Areas (Social Groups; Social Environment)
- GEO 104: Cultural Geography
- GEO 105: Geography of Language and Dialect Families
- GEO 106: Geography of Religious Groups / Religious Geography
- GEO 108: Geography of Nations and States (Political Geography, Military Geography, ...)
- GEO 109: Other
GEO 110: Historical Geography
- GEO 112: Prehistory and Early History
- GEO 113: Ancient World
- GEO 114: Middle Ages
- GEO 115: Age of Discovery /age of Exploration
- GEO 116: Colonial Era; Colonial Powers
- GEO 117: (Deserted) Medieval Settlement Research
- GEO 119: Other
GEO 120: Cultural Geography; Studies of Cultivated Landscapes

Ethnography, Ethnology see GES 850

Ethnography, Ethnology see SOZ 470
- GEO 122: Habitats
- GEO 123: Humanity - Environment
- GEO 125: Cultural Areas; Cultural Geographic Classification
- GEO 129: Other
GEO 130: Applied Geography

Regional Studies; Regional Planning; Land Use Planning / Country Planning, see ARC 900
- GEO 131: Educational Geography / Teaching Geography
  - GEO 132: At Elementary / Primary Schools
  - GEO 133: At Secondary / Middle Schools / Junior High Schools
  - GEO 134: At High Schools / Grammar Schools
  - GEO 135: At Universities, Colleges, Academies
- GEO 136: Geography and Publicity (Adult Evening Classes, Press, Radio, Publishers, ...)
- GEO 138: Developing Countries; Development Planning; Development Politics
- GEO 139: Other
GEO 140: Atlases
- GEO 141: Global Atlases / Atlases of the World; Non-European Continents
- GEO 142: Europe
  - GEO 143: Germany
    - GEO 144: Bavaria
GEO 145: Maps
- GEO 146: Topographical Maps
- GEO 147: Geological and Geophysical Maps
- GEO 148: Topical Maps
- GEO 149: Other Maps
GEO 150: Regional Geography
- GEO 153: General and Comparative Regional Geography
- GEO 155: Several Continents and Large Geographical Zones
- GEO 157: Developing Countries; Newly Industrialized Countries
- GEO 158: Industrial / Developed Countries
- GEO 159: Other
- GEO 160: Europe
  - GEO 161: Larger Subareas
  - GEO 162: European Union (including Predecessor Organizations)
  - GEO 163: Former COMECON Countries (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
  - GEO 164: Baltic
  - GEO 165: Central Europe
    - GEO 170: Germany
      - GEO 171: Berlin
        
        GEO 172: West Berlin (Prior to Re-Unification 1990)
    - GEO 173: Germany , (including Federal Republic of Germany Prior to Re-Unification 1990)
      - GEO 174: Northern Germany
        
        GEO 175: Schleswig-Holstein
        
        GEO 176: Hamburg (and Lower Elbe)
        
        GEO 177: Bremen (and Lower Weser)
        
        GEO 178: Lower Saxony
      - GEO 180: Central Germany and West Germany
        
        GEO 181: North Rhine-Westphalia
        
        GEO 182: Hesse
        
        GEO 183: Rhineland-Palatinate
        
        GEO 184: Saarland
      - GEO 185: Southern Germany
        
        GEO 186: Baden-Wuerttemberg
        
        GEO 187: Baden; Black Forest; Hegau; Area of Lake Constance; High Rhine
        
        GEO 188: Wuerttemberg; Swabia; Swabian Alps
        
        GEO 189: Other
        
        GEO 190: Bavaria
        
        GEO 191: Franconia (Franconian Jura, Scarplandscape...)
        
        GEO 192: Upper Palatinate (Bayerische Randgebirge Bavarian Border Mountains , ...)
        
        GEO 193: Lower Bavaria (Hügelland Lower Bavarian Tertiary Hill Country, ...)
        
        GEO 194: Swabia (Moraine Landscapes of the Diluvial Iller/lech Glacier, ...) (Iller, Lech = Confluences of the River Danube)
        
        GEO 195: Upper Bavaria (Moraine Landscapes of the Diluvial Loisach/isar, the Inn/chiemsee and the Salzach Glacier (Loisach, Isar, Inn, Salzach = Rivers; Chiemsee = Lake)
        
        GEO 196: Munich (Morainal) Plain and Isar-Inn-Schotterplatten(Gravel Plates from the Pleistocene)
        
        GEO 197: Munich
        
        GEO 198: Bavarian Alps and Prealps
      - GEO 199: Other
    - GEO 200: Germany (including Former German Democratic Republic until 1990)
      - GEO 201: German Baltic Sea Coastline; Baltic Sea Islands
      - GEO 202: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
      - GEO 203: Saxony-Anhalt; Brandenburg; Saxony
      - GEO 204: Thuringia
  - GEO 210: Central Europe excluding Germany
    - GEO 211: Benelux Countries
      - GEO 212: Netherlands
      - GEO 213: Belgium
      - GEO 214: Luxembourg
    - GEO 215: Alpine Countries
      - GEO 216: Switzerland; Liechtenstein
      - GEO 217: Austria
    - GEO 218: Poland
    - GEO 219: The Czech Republic; Slovakia
  - GEO 220: Northern Europe
    - GEO 221: Scandinavia
      - GEO 222: Norway
      - GEO 223: Sweden
      - GEO 224: Finland
      - GEO 225: Denmark
    - GEO 226: Iceland
  - GEO 230: Western Europe
    - GEO 231: British Isles
      - GEO 232: Ireland (including Northern Ireland)
      - GEO 233: Northern England and Scotland
      - GEO 234: Midlands and Wales
      - GEO 235: Southern England and London
    - GEO 236: France (including Corsica)
      - GEO 237: Northern France (Ile De France, Paris, Champagne, ...)
      - GEO 238: Southern France (Loire Basin, Pyrenees, French Jura Mountains and Alps, ...)
      - GEO 239: Mediterranean Coast; Corsica
  - GEO 240: Southern Europe (Mediterranean Countries)
    - GEO 241: Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal)
    - GEO 242: Italy
    - GEO 243: Greece and Greek Islands
    - GEO 244: Cyprus
  - GEO 245: Southeastern Europe
    - GEO 246: Successor States of Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo) ; Albania
    - GEO 247: Hungary
    - GEO 248: Romania
    - GEO 249: Bulgaria
  - GEO 250: Eastern Europe
    - GEO 252: Successor States of the Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
      - GEO 253: European Part of the Former Soviet Union (Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine)
        
        GEO 254: Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
      - GEO 255: Asian Part of the Former Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
        
        GEO 256: Siberia
        
        GEO 257: Middle Asian Part of the Former Soviet Union (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
        
        GEO 258: Far East (Amur-Ussuri Area (Rivers), Vladivostok,...)
- GEO 260: Asia (excluding Former Soviet Union)
  - GEO 261: Middle East (Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, ...)
  - GEO 262: Southern Asia (Afghanistan, Bangaldesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)
  - GEO 263: Southeast Asia (Farther India: Cambodia, Laos People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam; Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore)
  - GEO 264: Central Asia; Inner Asia
  - GEO 265: East Asia (China, Japan, Korean Peninsula, Mongolia, Taiwan)
    - GEO 266: China including Hon Kong, Taiwan (Formosa) and Tibet; Mongolia
    - GEO 267: Korean Peninsula (North Korea and South Korea)
    - GEO 268: Japan
    - GEO 269: Taiwan (Formosa); Hong Kong
- GEO 270: Africa
  - GEO 271: North Africa (Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia)
  - GEO 272: Sub-Saharan Africa
  - GEO 273: Sahara and Sudan (General Region) (Chad, Niger, South Sudan, Sudan)
  - GEO 274: Western Sahara (Burkina-Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara)
  - GEO 275: West Africa (Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, ...)
  - GEO 276: Central Africa (Angola, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon)
  - GEO 277: East Africa (Ethiopia, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda)
  - GEO 278: South Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland)
- GEO 279: Islands (Madeira, Canary Islands, Madagascar, Seychelles)
- GEO 280: Americas
  - GEO 281: North America
    - GEO 282: Canada
    - GEO 283: United States
  - GEO 285: Middle and South America
    - GEO 286: Middle America
    - GEO 287: Caribbean Region
    - GEO 288: South America
- GEO 290: Australia; New Zealand; Oceania
  - GEO 291: Australia including Tasmania
  - GEO 292: New Zealand including Kermadec Islands
  - GEO 293: Oceania
- GEO 295: Polar Regions
  - GEO 296: Arctic and Greenland
  - GEO 297: Antarctic
GEO 300: Geology
- GEO 302: Remote Sensing; Photogeology
- GEO 304: Field Geological, Geometric and Statistical Methods; Data-Processing; Field Mapping
  
  Mine Surveying, see BER 100
- GEO 306: History of Geology and Mineralogy; History of Geological Institutions and History of Geodidactics
- GEO 308: Biographies and Letters of Distinguished Geologists
GEO 310: General Geology
- GEO 312: Marine Geology; Oceanography; Marine Ecology
- GEO 313: Limnology
- GEO 314: Spelaeology (Scientific Study of Caves); Karst/ Mattock
- GEO 315: Pedology (Soil Science); Weathering (Aging / Ageing)
- GEO 316: Glaciology; Geomorphology
- GEO 317: Patterned Ground (Formerly also Known as Frost Pattern Soil), Periglacial, Geocryology
- GEO 318: Volcanology; Magmatism
- GEO 319: Extraterrestrial Geology and Cosmochemistry;planetary System: Meteorite Studies and Meteorite Craters
GEO 320: Applied Geology (Soil Development and Soils)
- GEO 322: Engineering Geology; Technical Geology; Building Ground Geology
- GEO 323: Soil Mechanics; Rock Mechanics (Both Fels and Gebirge); Soil Engineering
- GEO 324: Technical Mineralogy / Petrography; Geology of (Natural) Resources
- GEO 325: Hydrogeology; Hydrology; Balneology; Water Resources Management
  
  Mining Hydrogeology, see BER 350
- GEO 326: (Crude) Oil Geology; Natural Gas; (Crude) Bitumen / Asphalt; Oil Shale and Ozocerite
- GEO 328: Environmental Geology; Geology and Environmental Protection; Disposals / Landfill Sites; Geology and Society
GEO 330: Regional Geology and Mineralogy
- GEO 331: Europe
  - GEO 332: Central and Northern Germany, Benelux: Geological Overviews
  - GEO 333: Central and Northern Germany, Benelux: Guides and Regional Descriptions, Topical Works
  - GEO 334: Southern Germany including Saarland: Geological Overviews
  - GEO 335: Southern Germany including Saarland: Guides and Regional Descriptions, Topical Works
  - GEO 338: Scandinavia
  - GEO 339: Great Britain; Ireland; North Sea
  - GEO 340: France; Swiss Jura Mountains
  - GEO 341: Spain; Portugal; Italy
  - GEO 342: Czech Republic; Slovakia (Former Czechoslovakia)
  - GEO 343: Romania; Poland, Hungary
  - GEO 344: Bulgaria; Albania; Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo; Greece; Mediterranean and Tethys Ocean Literature
  - GEO 345: Alps with Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein
    - GEO 346: Western Alps; Southern Part (with Rhone Basin and Foothills of the Alps)
    - GEO 347: Western Alps; Northern Part (with Flysch and Helvetic Nappes West of the Iller (Iller = Confluence of the River Danube))
    - GEO 348: Eastern Alps; Northern Limestone Alps (with Flysch and Helvetic Nappes East of the Iller (Iller = Confluence of the River Danube))
    - GEO 349: Eastern Alps, without Northern Limestone Alps (Central Alps)
    - GEO 350: Southern Alps and Po Valley
    - GEO 353: Molasse (Basin); Inner-Alpine Tertiary Basins; Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of the Alps
- GEO 355: Asia with Indian Ocean
- GEO 356: Africa; Arabian Peninsula (including the Red Sea); Canary Islands; Cape Verde Islands
- GEO 357: America; Greenland with Atlantic Ocean and Northern Arctic Sea
- GEO 358: Australia; New Zealand; Antarctica with Pacific Ocean
GEO 360: Tectonics
- GEO 362: Regional Tectonics (Large-Scale Tectonics, Orogeny, Plate Tectonics, ...); Gondwana Literature
- GEO 364: Structural Geology (Tectonophysics, Microtechnology, Model Testing, ...)
GEO 370: Historical Geology; Stratigraphy and Paleontology
- GEO 372: Precambrian and Paleozoic Era
- GEO 375: Triassic
- GEO 376: Jurassic
- GEO 377: Cretaceous
- GEO 379: Tertiary
- GEO 380: Quaternary; River and Forest History; Studies of Bed Load (Transport)
- GEO 382: Paleoanthropology; Prehistory
- GEO 390: Paleozoology (Systematic; Ecological; Regional)
- GEO 392: Micropaleontology
- GEO 393: Invertebrate Paleontology
- GEO 394: Vertebrate Paleontology
- GEO 397: Paleobotany
- GEO 398: Paleoclimatology; Paleoenvironment Paleoecology; Paleogeography; Paleobiogeography
- GEO 399: Other
GEO 400: Mineralogy (Comprehensive)
- GEO 401: Special Mineralogy (in General, incl. Classification Guide Books, Collections)
- GEO 402: Special Mineralogy (Species, Groups), without Gemstones
- GEO 403: Gemmology
- GEO 404: Archaeometry
- GEO 410: Methods of Mineralogical Research (in General)
- GEO 411: Mineral Optical Methods and Instruments (in General); Preparation
- GEO 412: Optical Methods – Transmitted Light Microscopy (Minerals, Rocks); Spindle Stage Method; Heavy Metal Analysis
- GEO 413: Optical Methods – Incident Light Microscopy
- GEO 414: Electro Microscopy; Electron-Probe Micro Analyzer; Cathodoluminescence
- GEO 415: Other Analytical Methods (including Infrared, DTA (Differential Thermal Analysis), Diffractometry
GEO 420: Crystallography
- GEO 422: Crystal Geometry and Crystal Optics; Crystal Structures
- GEO 424: Radiographic Texture Analysis; Crystal Structure Analysis
- GEO 425: Radiography; X-Ray Structure Analysis
- GEO 426: Crystal Physics
GEO 430: Geochemistry (in General: Earth Structure, Development of the Earthand Element Distribution), including Regional Geochemistry
- GEO 431: Geochemical Field and Laboratory Methods (incl. Fluid Inclusion Analysis)
- GEO 432: Isotope Geochemistry (incl. Geochronology)
GEO 440: Petrology and Petrography of Crystalline Rock (in General)
- GEO 441: Magmatic Rocks and Dykite / Dike Rocks, Pluton and Volcanic Rock
- GEO 442: Metamorphic Rock and Migmatite
- GEO 443: Rock Physics and Rock Examination
- GEO 444: Petrographical Classification Guide Books
GEO 450: Systematic and General Geology of Mineral Deposits and Ecological Geology(excluding (Crude) Oil Geology and Coal Geology) (GEO 326)
- GEO 451: Geology of Ore / Mineral Deposits (in General)
- GEO 452: Specific Mineral Deposits
- GEO 453: Regional Geology of Ore / Mineral Deposits
- GEO 454: (Geophysical) Prospection and Evaluation of Deposits (Locating and Evaluation)
- GEO 455: Industrial Minerals (incl. Mineral Building Materials)
- GEO 456: Natural Stone; Ashlar Stone; Stone Conservation
- GEO 457: Glass; Ceramics; Synthetic Minerals; Refractory Materials
- GEO 458: Salts; Salt Deposits
GEO 460: Mining
- GEO 461: Ore Dressing / Processing and Metallurgy
- GEO 462: History of Mining and Metallurgy (incl. Industry of Salt Production)
GEO 470: Sedimentology and Sedimentpetrography
- GEO 471: Facies Analysis, Sedimentary Basin Analysis, Sequence Stratigraphy
- GEO 472: Mainland Sedimentation; Sedimentation of Rivers, Lakes; Glacial Sediments; Desert Studies
- GEO 473: Marine Sedimentation
- GEO 474: Fine-Grained Clastic Sediments (Clay, Pelite)
- GEO 475: Coarse Clastic Sediments (Sands, Gravel / Grit, Psammite, Psephite)
- GEO 476: Carbonates, Micro-Facies, Riffs
- GEO 477: Coal, Caustobiolith, Organic Substances in Sediments
- GEO 478: Geochemistry of Sediments, Geomicrobiology
- GEO 480: Diagenesis of Sediments
GEO 500: Geophysics

Mathematical Geodesy, see BAU 560
- GEO 505: Fluctuations in Earth Rotation
- GEO 515: The Earth's Gravity / Gravitational Field
  
  Geodetic Applications, see BAU 940
- GEO 525: Earth Tides
GEO 530: Geomagnetism
- GEO 533: Dynamo Theories of Geomagnetism; Models of Geomagnetism
- GEO 536: Palaeomagnetism
GEO 540: Geoelectricity; Magnetotellurics
GEO 550: Seismology; Seismics
GEO 560: Structure and Characteristics of the Earth's Interior
- GEO 563: Heat Flow; Geothermics
- GEO 566: Earth's Crust and Upper Mantle
GEO 570: Hydrospheric Physics
- GEO 575: Marine Geophysics; Physics of the Ocean
- GEO 585: Deep Sea Dynamics
- GEO 595: Tides; Surface Waves
- GEO 599: Others to Geophysics
GEO 600: Atmospheric Physics
GEO 610: Atmospheric Optics
- GEO 612: Propagation of Light; Dispersion
  - GEO 613: Laser Beam Propagation; LIDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging); Ozone Measurement
GEO 620: Atmospheric Electricity
- GEO 625: Airglow; Night Sky Glow; Aurora
- GEO 639: Other
GEO 640: Ionospheric Physics
- GEO 641: Structure of the Ionosphere
- GEO 643: Plasmasphere; Plasmapause
  - GEO 647: Electrical Fields
  - GEO 659: Other
GEO 660: Magnetospheric Physics
- GEO 665: Plasma Movements and Instabilities
- GEO 669: Electrical Fields
- GEO 674: Magnetic Storms and Pulsations
- GEO 677: ELF (Extreme Low Frequency) and ULF (Ultra Low Frequency) Waves
- GEO 683: VLF (Very Low Frequency) Waves
- GEO 687: Solar Wind and Magnetosphere
- GEO 699: Other
GEO 700: Meteorology
- GEO 710: General Planetary Circulation
- GEO 720: Winds
- GEO 723: Storms
- GEO 726: Hurricanes / Tornados
- GEO 730: Boundary Layer; Inversion Layers
- GEO 740: Water in the Atmosphere
- GEO 745: Cloud Physics
- GEO 750: Particles and Aerosols; Air Pollution (including Gas as Pollutants)
  
  Aerosols as Air Pollutants see UMW 221
- GEO 760: Climatology
  
  Paleoecology, Paleobiogeography see GEO 398
  - GEO 763: Analytical Climatology (Structure of the Atmosphere, Emission, Temperature, Chemical Composition, ...)
  - GEO 766: Synoptical Climatology (Typical Atmospheric Conditions, Fronts, Weather Charts, ...)
  - GEO 769: Dynamical Climatology (Air-Pressure and Wind Belts, Weather Climatology, ...)
  - GEO 772: Territorial Climate; Ground Climate; Microclimate
  - GEO 773: Urban Climate
  - GEO 775: Agroclimatology; Phenology
    
    Agricultural Meterology, Forest Meteorology see also LAN 090
  - GEO 778: Bioclimatology (Acclimatization, Healthy Climates, ....)
  - GEO 780: Climate Change, Climate Fluctuation
    - GEO 781: Influences on Climate; Anthropogenic Climate Change
  - GEO 784: Regional Climatology (Climatic Regions)
  - GEO 789: Other
- GEO 790: Weather Analysis and Forecast
  - GEO 793: Mathematical Devices; Data Processing
  - GEO 796: Satellite Meteorology
- GEO 799: Other