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A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology. Geologists are also known as earth scientists or geoscientists. Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth Sciences), is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. ... Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth Sciences), is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. ...


The following is a list of famous or notable geologists. Many have received such awards as the Penrose Medal, the Wollaston Medal, or have been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences or the Royal Society. The Penrose Medal was created in 1927 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. ... The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... The premises of the Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ...


Geoscience specialties represented here include geochemistry, geophysics, geomorphology, glaciology, hydrology, oceanography, mineralogy, petrology, crystallography, paleontology, paleobotany, paleoclimatology, sedimentology, soil science, stratigraphy, and volcanology. In this list, the person listed is a geologist unless another specialty is noted. The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space, and their interaction with... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... Surface of the Earth Geomorphology is the study of landforms, including their origin and evolution, and the processes that shape them. ... Lateral moraine on a glacier joining the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Switzerland. ... Water covers 70% of the Earths surface. ... Thermohaline circulation Oceanography (from Ocean + Greek γράφειν = write), also called oceanology or marine science, is the branch of Earth Sciences that studies the Earths oceans and seas. ... Mineralogy is an earth science that involves the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. ... Petrology is a field of geology which focuses on the study of rocks and the conditions by which they form. ... Crystallography (from the Greek words crystallon = cold drop / frozen drop, with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and graphein = write) is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. ... Paleontology or palaeontology (see Spelling differences) is the study of the history and development of life on Earth, including that of ancient plants and animals, based on the fossil record (evidence of their prehistoric existence as typically preserved in sedimentary rocks). ... Paleobotany (from the Greek words paleon = old and botanikos = of herbs) is the branch of paleontology dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use in the reconstruction of past environments and the history of life. ... Paleoclimatology is the study of climate change taken on the scale of the entire history of the Earth. ... Sedimentology is the branch of geology primarily concerned with understanding the characteristics of sediments, sedimentary processes and sedimentary rocks originally deposited in sedimentary basins. ... Soil science deals with soil as a natural resource on the surface of the earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils per se; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils. ... Stratigraphy, a branch of geology, is basically the study of rock layers and layering (stratification). ... Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology) is the study of volcanoes, lava, magma, and related geological phenomena. ... The Geologist by Carl Spitzweg A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth and planets of the solar system (see planetary geology). ...


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Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (December 11, 1806 – July 1, 1886) was a German mineralogist and geologist. ... Mineralogy is an earth science that involves the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. ... Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807-December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ... A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity and undergoes internal deformation. ... A map of the extent of Lake Agassiz Lake Agassiz was an immense lake—bigger than all of the present-day Great Lakes combined—in the center of North America, which was fed by glacial runoff at the end of the last ice age. ... Georg Agricola Georg (or Georgius) Agricola (March 24, 1490 - November 21, 1555) was a German scholar and man of science. ... Georg Agricola the father of mineralogy De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals (Minerals)) is a book cataloging the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556. ... Ulisse Aldrovandi Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 - 10 November 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bolognas botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. ... Raphael was famous for depicting illustrious figures of the Classical past with the features of his Renaissance contemporaries. ... Claude (Jean) Allègre (born March 31, 1937) is a French geochemist and politician. ... The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space. ... Walter Alvarez (born 1940), son of Nobel Prize winner Luis Alvarez, is a professor in the geology and geophysics department at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Mary Anning. ... Etienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon, Vicomte dArchiac (September 24, 1802 - December 24, 1868), was a French geologist and paleontologist. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Giovanni Arduino (Caprino Veronese, October 16, 1714 – Venice, March 21, 1795) was an Italian geologist who is known as the Father of Italian Geology. ... The table and timeline of geologic periods presented here is in accordance with the dates and nomenclature proposed by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. ... Richard Lee “Dick” Armstrong PhD, FRSC (August 4, 1937 – August 9, 1991) was an American/Canadian scientist who was an expert in the fields of radiogenic isotope geochemistry and geochronology, geochemical evolution of the earth, geology of the American Cordillera, and large-magnitude crustal extension. ... The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space, and their interaction with... Tanya Atwater is an American geophysicist and marine geologist who specializes in plate tectonics, in particular the evolution of the San Andreas fault plate boundary. ... Geophysics, the study of the earth by quantitative physical methods, especially by seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods. ... Bridge across the Álfagjá rift valley in southwest Iceland, the boundary of the Eurasian and North American continental tectonic plates. ...

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Anthony R. “Tony” Barringer (b. ... Geophysics, the study of the earth by quantitative physical methods, especially by seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods. ... Florence Bascom(1862 in Williamstown, Massachusetts; died 1945) was the first woman hired by the United States Geological Survey. ... The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. ... Robert Bell FRSC MD (June 3, 1841- June 17, 1917) was a Canadian geologist, professor and civil servant. ... Walter Andrew Bell (January 4, 1889-1969) was a Canadian geologist. ... Paleobotany (from the Greek words paleon = old and botanikos = of herbs) is the branch of paleontology dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use in the reconstruction of past environments and the history of life. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Etheldred Benett (1776-January 11, 1845) was an early English female geologists, the second daughter of Thomas Benett and great-granddaughter of a former Archbishop of Canterbury. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Pierre Berthier (July 3, 1782 – August 24, 1861) was a French geologist who discovered the properties of Bauxite in 1821 in the village Les Baux de Provence in southern France. ... Bauxite with penny Bauxite with core of unweathered rock Bauxite is an aluminium ore which consists largely of the Al minerals gibbsite Al(OH)3, boehmite and diaspore AlOOH, together with the iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase TiO2. ... Dr. Stewart Stu Lynn Blusson OC (born 1939) is a multimillionaire and philanthropist. ... The Ekati Diamond Mine is Canadas first operational diamond mining operation. ... Bruce Bolt (born February 15, 1930 - died July 21, 2005) was a Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Seismology (from the Greek seismos = earthquake and logos = word) is the scientific study of earthquakes and the movement of waves through the Earth. ... Norman Levi Bowen was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada June 21, 1887 and died on September 11, 1956. ... Petrology is a field of geology which focuses on the study of rocks and the conditions by which they form. ... J Harlen Bretz J Harlen Bretz (1882 - 1981) was an American geologist, best known for his research that led to the acceptance of the Missoula Floods. ... DrumHeller Channels The Channeled Scablands are unique geological erosion features in the U.S. state of Washington. ... Wallace S. Broecker is the Newberry Professor of Geochemistry at Columbia University. ... A paleoclimatologist is a person who studies climates of the past and past climate changes. ... Chemical oceanography is the study of the behaviour of the chemical elements within the Earths oceans. ... William Buckland (12 March 1784 - 24 August 1856) was a prominent English geologist and palaeontologist who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, a proponent of Old Earth creationism and Flood geology who later became convinced by the glaciation theory of Louis Agassiz. ... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ... B. Clark Burchfiel is an American structural geologist. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and Sichuan Province of China lie on the Tibetan Plateau. ...

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Colin J. Campbell, Ph. ... A petroleum geologist is an occupation that involves all aspects of oil discovery and production. ... The Hubbert peak theory, also known as peak oil, is an influential theory concerning the long-term rate of conventional oil production and depletion. ... Neil Campbell FRSC (April 27, 1914 - July 12, 1978) was a famous Canadian geologist, and is a notable within the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. ... Motto: none Official languages Chipewyan, Cree, English, French, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey, Tåîchô [1] Flower Mountain avens Tree Tamarack Bird Gyr Falcon Capital Yellowknife Largest city Yellowknife Commissioner Tony Whitford Premier Joe Handley (Consensus government (no party affiliations)) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats... Mineral exploration is the process undertaken by companies, partnerships or corporations in the endeavour of finding commercially viable concentrations of ore to mine. ... Petr ÄŒerný FRSC is an award-winning mineralogy professor at the University of Manitoba. ... Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois (January 20, 1820 - November 14, 1886) was a French geologist and mineralogist who was the first to arrange the chemical elements in order of atomic weights, doing so in 1862. ... George V. Chilingar is a Professor of civil and petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). ... A petroleum geologist is an occupation that involves all aspects of oil discovery and production. ... Dr. Thomas Henry Clark PhD FRSC (December 3, 1893 – April 28, 1996) is considered one of the top Canadian scientists of the 20th Century. ... William Branwhite Clarke, MA , BA , FRS (June 2, 1798 – June 17, 1878) was an English geologist. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... Capital Sydney Government Const. ... Hans Cloos (November 8, 1885–September 26, 1951) was a prominent German structural geologist. ... William Daniel Conybeare (June 7, 1787 - August 12, 1857) was an English geologist and paleontologist. ... Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840–April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist. ... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Bone Wars - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Charles Cotton (April 28, 1630 - February, 1687) was an English poet, best-known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French. ... Surface of the Earth Geomorphology is the study of landforms, including their origin and evolution, and the processes that shape them. ... Georges Cuvier Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769–May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. ... Catastrophism is the theory that Earth has been affected by sudden, short-lived, violent events that were sometimes worldwide in scope. ...

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James Dwight Dana (February 12, 1813 - April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. ... Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an eminent English naturalist who achieved lasting fame by convincing the scientific community that species develop over time from a common origin. ... The 1859 edition of On the Origin of Species First published in 1859, The Origin of Species (full title On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) by British naturalist Charles Darwin is one of the pivotal... (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada PA-26889) George Mercer Dawson (August 1, 1849 – March 2, 1901) was a Canadian scientist and surveyor. ... This article is about Yukon Territory in Canada. ... Sir John William Dawson, KCMG , FRSC (October 13, 1820 – November 19, 1899), was a Canadian geologist, born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. ... The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia (located on the northern portion of North Americas east coast). ... Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt (6 August 1920 - 4 November 1998) was a Belgian geologist who worked mainly in Africa. ... The Ishango bone is a tally stick, made of bone, which contains sequences of prime numbers, and some series of multiples. ... Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796 - April 13, 1855) was an English geologist. ... BGS logo The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly-funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research. ... Dr. Duncan R. Derry PhD (1906–1987) was an internationally known Canadian economic geologist. ... Economic geology is concerned with earth materials that can be utilized for economic and/or industrial purposes. ... Nicolas Desmarest (September 16, 1725 - September 20, 1815) was a French geologist. ... Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology) is the study of volcanoes, lava, magma and related geological phenomena. ... William R. Dickinson (1930-) is a professor emeritus of geoscience at the University of Arizona and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. ... Bridge across the Álfagjá rift valley in southwest Iceland, the boundary of the Eurasian and North American continental tectonic plates. ... The Colorado Plateau, also called the Colorado Plateaus Province, is a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. ... Robert Sinclair Dietz (September 14, 1914 - May 19, 1995) was Professor of Geology at Arizona State University. ... Age of oceanic crust. ... Robert John Wilson Bob Douglas FRSC, PhD (1920 – 1979) was an award winning Canadian geologist who made noteworthy contributions in the fields of structure stratigraphy, sedimentation, and petroleum geology. ... A petroleum geologist is an occupation that involves all aspects of oil discovery and production. ... Aleksis Dreimanis (b. ... For other uses, see Quaternary (disambiguation). ... Clarence Edward Dutton (May 15, 1841-January 4, 1912) was an American geologist and pioneer seismologist who developed and named the principle of isostasy. ...

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Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont (September 25, 1798 – September 21, 1874) was a French geologist. ... W. Gary Ernst is an American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry. ... Stanford may refer: Stanford University Places: Stanford, Kentucky Stanford, California, home of Stanford University Stanford Shopping Center Stanford, New York, town in Dutchess County. ... Petrology is a field of geology which focuses on the study of rocks and the conditions by which they form. ... The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space. ... Dr. W. Maurice Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission, deep sea coring of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves... Geophysics, the study of the earth by quantitative physical methods, especially by seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods. ... Oceanography (from Ocean + Greek γράφειν = write), also called oceanology and marine science is the study of the earths oceans and their interlinked ecosystems and chemical and physical processes. ... The Geologist by Carl Spitzweg A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth and planets of the solar system (see planetary geology). ... See also explorations, sea explorers, astronaut, conquistador, travelogue, the History of Science and Technology and Biography. ...

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Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (May 17, 1741-July 18, 1819), French geologist and traveller, was born at Montélimar. ... Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology) is the study of volcanoes, lava, magma and related geological phenomena. ... Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865-1950) was a Canadian geologist and mining engineer. ... Minerals are natural compounds formed through geological processes. ... Chuck Fipke was a prospector who discovered the existence of diamonds around Lac de Gras in Canadas Northwest Territories. ... The Ekati Diamond Mine is Canadas first operational diamond mining operation. ... Professor Richard A. Fortey FRS (born 1946 in London) is a British paleontologist and writer, formerly a Merit Researcher at the Natural History Museum in London. ... Orders Agnostida Redlichiida Corynexochida Lichida Phacopida Proetida Asaphida Harpetida Ptychopariida Nektaspida (doubtful order) Trilobites are extinct arthropods in the class Trilobita. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Yves Oscar Fortier OC FRSC (born January 1, 1914) is a Canadian geologist. ... The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border Satellite image of the Arctic surface The Arctic is the area around the Earths North Pole, opposite the Antarctican area around the South Pole. ... William Sefton Fyfe (born June 4, 1927) is a Canadian geologist and Professor Emeritus in the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. ... The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space. ...

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Robert Minard Garrels (1916–1988) was an American geochemist. ... The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space. ... The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space, and their interaction with... Grove, Karl, Gilbert (May 6, 1843 – May 1, 1918), known by the abbreviated name in academic literature, was an American geologist. ... James Edward Gill PhD (1901 – 1980) was a scientist, teacher, explorer and mine developer. ... McGill University is a publicly funded, non-denominational, co-educational research university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (Zürich, January 27, 1888 – March 20, 1947 in Oslo) was a chemist considered to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements. ... The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space, and their interaction with... Dr. John C. Gosse of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia is internationally known for his research in the field of geomorphology (the study of landforms), and is recognized as a world leader in investigating the rate of landscape evolution via the use of cosmogenic isotopes. ... Surface of the Earth Geomorphology is the study of landforms, including their origin and evolution, and the processes that shape them. ... It has been suggested that Darwinian Fundamentalism be merged into this article or section. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Louis Caryl Graton (1880-1970), American geologist, chemist and educator, began his distinguished career in 1900 as assayer for Ledyard Gold Mines Ltd. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Economic geology is concerned with earth materials that can be utilized for economic and/or industrial purposes. ... Alexander Henry Green (October 10, 1832 _ 1896), English geologist, son of the Rev. ... Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Henry Cecil Gunning PhD FRSC (1901 - 1991) was a Canadian geologist and academic. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English de facto (none stated in law) Flower Pacific dogwood Tree Western Redcedar Bird Stellers Jay Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 36 6 Area...

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Sir Johann Franz Julius von Haast (May 1, 1824 - August 15, 1887) was a German geologist. ... The Canterbury Museum is located in Christchurch, New Zealand. ... Sir James Hall (January 17, 1761 - June 23, 1832) was a geologist and geophysicist, born in Dunglass, Scotland. ... The Royal Society of Edinburghs Building on the corner of George St. ... W. Brian Harland (1917 - 2003) was an eminent geologist at Cambridge University, England. ... Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith D.Phil, FRSC (1923-) is an English born geologist and glaciologist. ... Dr. James Edwin (Ed) Hawley PhD (1897 - 1965) was an award winning Canadian geologist and distinguished Professor of Mineralogy at Queens University. ... Mineralogy is an earth science that involves the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. ... Frank Christopher Hawthorne (born 1946) is a Canadian mineralogist and crystallographer. ... Mineralogy is an earth science that involves the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. ... Crystallography (from the Greek words crystallon = solid and graphein = write) is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. ... Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (September 7, 1829 - December 22, 1887) was an American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century. ... Harry Hammond Hess (1906-1969) was an American geologist. ... Oceanography (from Ocean + Greek γράφειν = write), also called oceanology and marine science is the study of the earths oceans and their interlinked ecosystems and chemical and physical processes. ... Pattillo Higgins (1863-1955) was a businessman as well as a self-taught geologist. ... Spindletop is an oil field located just south of Beaumont, Texas in the United States. ... Eugene W. Hilgard (1833 – 1916) was an expert on pedology (study of soil resources). ... Professor Claude Hillaire-Marcel is a Canadian geoscientist of great distinction and a world leader in Quaternary research. ... Paul F. Hoffman is a Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University. ... The Snowball Earth hypothesis is a controversial hypothesis (Sankaran, 2003) that attempts to explain a number of phenomena noted in the geological record by proposing that an ice age that took place in the Neoproterozoic was so severe that the Earths oceans froze over completely, with only heat from... Arthur Holmes (January 14, 1890 – September 20, 1965) was a British geologist. ... Kenneth J. Hsu (许靖华, Pinyin: Xǔ Jìnghuá) (born July 7, 1929),is a scientist and geologist. ... Marion King Hubbert (October 5, 1903 – October 11, 1989) was a geophysicist who worked at the Shell research lab in Houston, Texas. ... The Hubbert peak theory, also known as peak oil, is an influential theory concerning the long-term rate of conventional oil production and depletion. ... James Hutton, painted by Abner Lowe. ...

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Edward A. Ted Irving (born 1927) CM, ScD, FRSC, FRS is a geologist and emeritus scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. ... Paleomagnetism refers to the orientation of the Earths magnetic field as it is preserved in various magnetic iron bearing minerals throughout time. ... Plates in the crust of the earth, according to the plate tectonics theory Continental drift, proposed as a theory by Alfred Wegener in 1912, is the movement of the Earths continents relative to each other. ...

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Michael John Keen (1935-1991) was an award-winning Canadian geoscientist. ... Categories: Stub | 1842 births | 1901 deaths | Climbers | Geologists | Sierra Nevada ... The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. ... Andrew H. Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History and a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Danie G. Krige, until recently Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Republic of South Africa, is a South African Mining Engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics. ... Mining Engineering is a field that involves many of the other engineering disciplines as applied to extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment. ... Kriging is a regression technique used in geostatistics to approximate or interpolate data. ... Thomas Edvard Tom Krogh PhD, FRSC is a geochronologist and a former curator for the Royal Ontario Museum. ... The Royal Ontario Museum, commonly known as the ROM (rhyming with Tom), is a major museum for world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... William Christian Krumbein was born at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA, in January, 1902. ... Nikolai Alexandrovich Kudryavtsev Russian: (Opochka, October 21, 1893 - Leningrad, December 12, 1971) was a Russian petroleum geologist. ... A petroleum geologist is an occupation that involves all aspects of oil discovery and production. ...

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Andrew Steve Bradley Lawson was born on January 21st 1991. ... View of the San Andreas Fault on the Carrizo Plain in central California, 35°07N, 119°39W The San Andreas Fault is a geological fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1300 kilometres) through western and southern California in the United States. ... Joseph LeConte Joseph Le Conte (February 26, 1823 - June 6, 1901) was an American geologist. ... The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... Robert Ferguson Legget (September 29, 1904 – April 17, 1994) was a Canadian civil engineer, geologist, educator, historian and writer. ... The term civil engineer refers to an individual who practices civil engineering. ... Pedology has the following meanings Pedology (soil study) Pedology (children study) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Inge Lehmann (May 13, 1888 - February 21, 1993), Fellow of the Royal Society (London) 1969, was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936, argued that the Earth must not only have a molten interior, but a solid core at the center, which deflects P waves. ... Seismology (from the Greek seismos = earthquake and logos = word) is the scientific study of earthquakes and the movement of waves through the Earth. ... The Lehmann discontinuity, named after seismologist Inge Lehmann, is the boundary layer in between the liquid outer core and the solid inner core. ... Luna Bergere Leopold (b. ... Hydrology is the study of the occurrence, distribution, and movement of water on, in, and above the earth. ... Xavier Le Pichon (born June 18, 1937) is a French geophysicist. ... Bridge across the Álfagjá rift valley in southwest Iceland, the boundary of the Eurasian and North American continental tectonic plates. ... Geophysics, the study of the earth by quantitative physical methods, especially by seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods. ... Waldemar Lindgren (February 14, 1860-November 3, 1939) was a Swedish-American economic geologist. ... Economic geology is concerned with earth materials that can be utilized for economic and/or industrial purposes. ... Martin Lister (c. ... Sir William Edmond Logan (April 20, 1798 – June 22, 1875) was a noted 19th century Canadian geologist. ... The Geological Survey of Canada or GSC is part of the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural Resources Canada. ... Dr. Fred J. Longstaffe Ph. ... The University of Western Ontario (popularly known as Western or UWO) is a coeducational, non-denominational, research-intensive university located in London, Ontario, Canada. ... Charles Lyell Sir Charles Lyell (November 14, 1797 – February 22, 1875), British geologist, and popularizer of uniformitarianism. ... Uniformitarianism has had two separate meanings, both more prevalent in 19th-century discourse: Within religious philosophy, Uniformitarianism (with a capital U) is the belief that the Universe has existed as it is now for an infinite time and will continue to exist for ever. ...

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William Maclure (1763 - March 23, 1840) was an American geologist. ... A geologic map is a special-purpose map made for the purpose of showing subsurface geological features. ... Dr. John Ross Mackay PhD, OC, FRSC, (born December 31, 1915) is an award winning Canadian geologist. ... In geology, permafrost or permafrost soil is a thermal condition where ground material stays at or below 0°C for two or more years. ... Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West. ... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Bone Wars - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... 1914 portrait Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS (May 5, 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian Antarctic explorer and geologist. ... Greek ἀνταρκτικός, opposite the arctic) is a continent surrounding the Earths South Pole. ... Prof Dan McKenzie, CH, FRS ( 1942) is a Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge University, and one-time head of the Bullard Laboratories. ... Geophysics, the study of the earth by quantitative physical methods, especially by seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods. ... Bridge across the Álfagjá rift valley in southwest Iceland, the boundary of the Eurasian and North American continental tectonic plates. ... Dr. Digby Johns McLaren Ph. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Giuseppe Mercalli (born May 21, 1850) was an Italian volcanologist. ... Seismology (from the Greek seismos = earthquake and logos = word) is the scientific study of earthquakes and the movement of waves through the Earth. ... Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology) is the study of volcanoes, lava, magma and related geological phenomena. ... The Mercalli Intensity Scale is a scale used to classify the intensity of an earthquake by examining its effects on people and structures at the Earths surface. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998. ... W. B. Metre // Waman Bapuji Metre Waman Bapuji Metre (Vāman BāpÅ«ji Metre) (February 14, 1906 – November 21, 1970), admiringly referred to as Dādā (Elder Brother) Metre in the Indian oil industry circles, was the doyen of Indian petroleum geologists. ... A petroleum geologist is an occupation that involves all aspects of oil discovery and production. ... Gerard Viner Gerry Middleton FRSC (born 1931) is an award winning Canadian geologist. ... Andrija Mohorovičić (c. ... Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. ... Seismology (from the Greek seismos = earthquake and logos = word) is the scientific study of earthquakes and the movement of waves through the Earth. ... Mohorovičić discontinuity. ... Friedrich Mohs (January 29, 1773 - September 29, 1839) was a German geologist/mineralogist. ... Mohs scale of mineral hardness characterizes the scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of a harder material to scratch a softer. ... Dr James (Jim) W.H. Monger PhD is an emeritus scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada and a world leader in the application of plate tectonics to the study of mountain chain formation. ... The Cordillera is a massive mountain range situated in the northern central part of the Philippines. ... W. Jason Morgan (* 10th October 1935 in Savannah, Georgia, USA) is a US geophysicist who has made seminal contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics. ... Bridge across the Álfagjá rift valley in southwest Iceland, the boundary of the Eurasian and North American continental tectonic plates. ... Sir Roderick Murchison Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (February 19, 1792 – October 22, 1871), was an influential Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian era. ... Emiliano Mutti is a geologist who has made significant contributions to petroleum geosciences, especially to sedimentary dynamics of turbidites and their reservoir characterization. ... A petroleum geologist is an occupation that involves all aspects of oil discovery and production. ...

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Dr. Ernest Richard Ward Neale OC FRSC PhD (born July, 1923) is a distinguished Canadian geologist. ... The four Canadian Atlantic provinces. ... John Strong Newberry (1822 - 1892) was a U.S. geologist. ...

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Joseph T. Pardee was a U.S. geologist who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, and contributed to the understanding of the origin of the Channeled scablands. ... DrumHeller Channels The Channeled Scablands are unique geological erosion features in the U.S. state of Washington. ... Clair Cameron Patterson (1922 - 1995) was a geochemist born in Iowa, United States. ... Lead poisoning is a medical condition, also known as saturnism, plumbism or painters colic, caused by increased blood lead levels. ... R. A. F. Penrose, Jr. ... The Penrose Medal was created in 1927 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. ... For other people with this name, see John Phillips John Phillips (December 25, 1800 – April 24, 1874) was an English geologist. ... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Memorial desk to Prof. ... A petroleum geologist is an occupation that involves all aspects of oil discovery and production. ... First camp of the John Wesley Powell expedition, in the willows, Green River, Wyoming, 1871 John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. ... The Colorado River from the bottom of Marble Canyon, in the Upper Grand Canyon Colorado River in the Grand Canyon from Desert View The Colorado River from Laughlin The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,330 km) long... The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. ... Raymond Alexander Price P.Eng, PhD, OC, FRSC (b. ... Raphael Pumpelly (1837 – 1923) was an American geologist and explorer. ...

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Frederick Leslie Ransome, Ph. ... The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. ... Economic geology is concerned with earth materials that can be utilized for economic and/or industrial purposes. ... Charles Francis Richter (April 26, 1900 – April 20, 1985), was an American seismologist, born in Hamilton, Ohio. ... The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ... Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905). ...

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Dr. Harrison Hagan Jack Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is a geologist, astronaut and former U.S. senator. ... Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program and was the sixth and last manned mission to date to land on the Moon. ... Adam Sedgwick (March 22nd, 1785–January 27, 1873) was one of the founders of modern geology. ... Disambiguation: Devonian is sometimes used to refer to the Southwestern Brythonic language, and the people of the county of Devon are sometimes referred to as Devonians The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era. ... The Cambrian is a major division of the geologic timescale that begins about 542 ± 1. ... Sir Nicholas John Shackleton (23 June 1937—24 January 2006) was a British geologist and climatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. ... Climatology is the science that studies climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. ... Eugene Shoemaker at a stereoscopic microscope used for asteroid discovery Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 â€“ July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science and is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker... Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, taken on May 17, 1994. ... George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 - October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... William Smith. ... Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (6 September 1842 - 25 February 1915), the archaeologist and photographer, was born in Mile End, Stepney, London, the eldest son of Dr. Flaxman Spurrell, M.D., F.R.C.S., and Ann Spurrell (who were also cousins). ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Image:Charles Steen. ... General Name, Symbol, Number uranium, U, 92 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery gray metallic; corrodes to a spalling black oxide coat in air Atomic mass 238. ... Moab is a city in Grand County, Utah, United States. ... Nicolaus Steno. ... Dr. Clifford H. Stockwell was an award-winning geologist, who published many scientific papers, reports and memoirs in the fields of Mineralogy, Structural Geology, Petrology, and Stratigraphy. ... The Geological Survey of Canada or GSC is part of the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural Resources Canada. ... David W. Strangway is a Canadian geophysicist and university administrator. ... Charles Richard Stelck OC, FRSC, PhD (born 1927) is an award-winning Canadian petroleum geologist, paleontologist, stratigrapher and emeritus professor. ... Eduard Suess (August 20, 1831 – April 26, 1914) was a 19th century geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. ... This article is about the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana. ...

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Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 - ) is a geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, along with her colleague Bruce Heezen, co-discovered the Mid-Oceanic Ridge, a line of undersea mountains that runs through Earths oceans, and mapped the features of the entire ocean floor. ... Courtesy USGS The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an underwater mountain range of the Atlantic Ocean that runs from Iceland to Antarctica, and is the longest mountain range on Earth. ... Lonnie Thompson. ... Glaciology is the study of glaciers, or more generally the study of ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. ... Climatology is the science that studies climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. ... Otto Martin Torell (1828 - 1900) was a Swedish geologist, was born in Varberg, Sweden on the June 5, 1828. ...

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Warren Upham (b. ... A map of the extent of Lake Agassiz Lake Agassiz was an immense lake—bigger than all of the present-day Great Lakes combined—in the center of North America, which was fed by glacial runoff at the end of the last ice age. ...

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Jan Veizer is an emeritus professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa and holder of the NSERC/Noranda/CIAR Industrial Chair in Earth System Isotope and Environmental Geochemistry. ... The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space. ... Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (July 30, 1887 – August 10, 1966) was a Dutch geologist and geodesist. ... Geophysics, the study of the earth by quantitative physical methods, especially by seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods. ... This article or section should include material from Erdmessung. ... Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Владимир Иванович Вернадский) (March 12, 1863, N.S. [ February 28, O.S. ] – January 6, 1945) was a Russian mineralogist and geochemist who first... The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space. ... Frederick J. Vine (born in 1939) is a marine geologist and geophysicist and was a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics. ... Geophysics, the study of the earth by quantitative physical methods, especially by seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods. ... Bridge across the Álfagjá rift valley in southwest Iceland, the boundary of the Eurasian and North American continental tectonic plates. ...

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