“…Research on the image of science has been oriented mainly toward general aspects; when it was addressed toward single disciplines, physics prevails by far (see, e.g., Olsen, Hewson, & Lyons, 1996;Roth & Lucas, 1997;Roth & Roychoudhury, 1993Rowell & Pollard, 1995;Schoneweg Bradford, Rubba, & Harkness, 1995). In geology, in particular, there is a lack of specific works: Arthur (1996) discussed semantics and compart-mentalization in the earth sciences and described the contribution of the "Earth Images Project" toward this end.…”