March 23, 1769 marks the birthday of pioneering stratigrapher William Smith, who is also credited with creating the first useful geological map, however like many other great accomplishments also ...
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Professor Renée M. Clary is the 2025 recipient of the Geological Society of America’s Mary C. Rabbitt Award, honoring her distinguished scholarship and ...
Whenever I start a multi-day geology class, I start with a brief “History of Geology” section. Covering what folks believed 400 years ago is a good way to set the tone for what we will be studying the ...
A practicing geologist can benefit from the history of geology professionally in two main ways: by learning about past mistakes so as not to repeat them and by finding out about different ways to ...
Earth Sciences History, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2019), pp. 371-387 (17 pages) During the second half of the nineteenth century, geology was added as a topic taught at schools of higher education in central ...
It's time to redraw the map of the world during the reign of the dinosaurs, two scientists say. Picture the U.S. West Coast as a torturous tectonic boundary, similar to Australia and Southeast Asia ...
The birth of modern geology is said to have started in the 18th century. The introduction of new concepts and thoughts about the Earth was a brave thing to do. Why is that? Because the believeth of ...
Geology as medicine and medics as geologists / C.J. Duffin -- Lithotherapeutical research sources from antiquity to the mid-eighteenth century / C.J. Duffin -- Cryptopalaeontology / E. Liñán, M. Liñán ...
No more appropriate writer could have been found for this condensed history of geology than the author of the recently published “History of the Geological Society of London.” The personal touches ...
There is lot fuzz about the discovery of a slab of granite embedded into basaltic rocks of the oceanic crust - granite is a rock typical of continental crust (including island arcs), which prompted ...
Geology studies students gain a deep understanding and appreciation of the Earth: its resources, structure, processes and history. Our faculty and staff research minerals, sediments, rocks, fossils, ...
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