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History_of_Geology

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A channel dedicated to the #History of #Earth #Sciences 🌍 run by an Alpine #Rock G(e)o(logist)at ⛰️🔨🐐

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February 7, 1784, the Laki eruption on , one of the largest basaltic fissure eruptions in recorded history and the deadliest volcanic eruption in Icelandic history, ends after 8 months of activity 🌋🇮🇸

http://www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/support-history-of-geology/

History_of_Geology, to Geology German
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February 6, 1796, birthday of John S. Henslow, botanist & professor of mineralogy who introduced Charles #Darwin to #geology 🪨🔨

https://michaelroberts4004.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/just-before-the-beagle.pdf

Geological map of Anglesey made in 1821 by Henslow

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February 4, 1857, German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen publicly announces the discovery of the Neanderthal Man💀

http://scihi.org/discovery-neanderthal-man/?fbclid=IwAR2KQljOEWBbJb2Y2pOGej4KEqYfqXYLFeJJUno2gHtRXWUkwpwVy_t7t48

History_of_Geology, to history German
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January 26, 1905, world's largest , the 3.106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa. It was named after the mine's chairman Thomas Cullinan.
The single crystal was split into nine smaller ones to be made into gemstones 💎👑

https://rct.uk/collection/themes/trails/the-crown-jewels/the-cullinan-diamond

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History_of_Geology, to earthquake German
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January 23, 1556, the Jiajing Great in is considered the deadliest earthquake in recorded history - an estimated 820.000 people were killed by collapsing buildings and
http://historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2011/01/23-january-1556-jiajing-great.html?fbclid=IwAR2sKfErL1RYqMsR457ecGNkqHPl7tXFm2WBe96Um68mHS3Rt2K271adiHY

History_of_Geology, to random German
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January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh reach with the bathyscaphe Trieste the deepest point on 's surface - the Challenger Deep at 10,924 ± 15 m formed by the subduction of the Pacific Crust beneath the Philippine Sea Plate 🐟

https://forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2021/05/12/study-reveals-deepest-point-in-each-ocean/

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January 23, 1857, birthday of Croatian meteorologist and seismologist Andrija Mohorovičić. He discovered the crust-mantle boundary - known also as Moho by geologists - analyzing the seismic waves generated by an in 1909 .

https://youtube.com/watch?v=omZj4GboJ00

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History_of_Geology, to movies German
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January 19, 1990, the -feature "Tremors" is released . This features also a lot of & babble ⚒️

https://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2010/10/25/geological-frightfest-tremors/

History_of_Geology, to random German
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January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe landed on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan and took this image from the surface, showing pebbles of methan-ice in a river of liquid C-fluids 🪐

History_of_Geology, to chile German
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December 30, 2012, eruption of Copahue volcano, border between - 🌋

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copahue

History_of_Geology, to chemistry German
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Best of #2023: Ig-#NobelPrize 🏆 in the category #Chemistry & #Geology went to an insightful answer to the old question why #geologists love to lick rocks
👅🪨

https://tinyurl.com/yc65btd2

History_of_Geology, to random German
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December 29, 1927, in the 1883 caldera of a volcanic dome starts to grow.
Anak Krakatau - the "child of Krakatau" - will rise to the sea surface a month later 🌋

https://scilogs.spektrum.de/geschichte-der-geologie/die-geschichte-des-krakatau-teil-iii/

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December 29, 1867, birthday of Annie Montague Alexander, naturalist & fossil hunter. She co-founded the Museum of Natural History of the University of California 🦖

http://wp.me/p3ihHu-1MU

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December 28, 1905, American journalist, industrialist & charity worker Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (1864-1922) receives a U.S. patent for the invention of the 55-gallon steel oil drum 🛢️

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

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French geologist Paul Tapponnier passed away on December 24th 2023 at the age of 76.
He introduced the concept of intender-tectonics, also known as escape-tectonics, to explain fault systems in Asia 🌏

https://schmidtocean.org/person/paul-tapponnier/?fbclid=IwAR2lNgjy9d_kTMCgZssb2426lDltBlp98Y0JKeQEbD6HEJ1lQqFPSPUjadM

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History_of_Geology, to random German
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greeting cards from ~ 1880 by London based publisher De La Rue based on the newest paleontological discoveries of the time
🦖🎄🐘

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December 22, 1938, Marjorie Courtaney-Latimer, a museum curator in the town of East London (South Africa), couldn't imagine that a simple phone call that morning would lead to an incredible discovery - a "living " 🐟

https://forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/12/22/the-day-a-fossil-fish-was-caught-alive/

History_of_Geology, to earthquake German
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December 22, 1689, a strong strikes in Tyrol (Austria). As a response "earthquake pillars" - reinforced stone pillars made from the local "Höttinger Breccia" & build into the walls to stabilize the buildings - become mandatory.

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December 15, 1852, birthday of French physicist Antoine H. Becquerel. His discovery that certain ores emit a unknown radiation lead to the discovery of 🪨☢️

https://www.facebook.com/nobelprize/photos/a.164901829102/10159320920754103

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December 13, 1640, birthday of British physician & naturalist Robert Plot. His "Natural History of Oxfordshire" (1677) features what could be the 1st depiction of a bone 🦖

The was found in a quarry near Cornwell, but is now lost 🦴
http://oum.ox.ac.uk/learning/htmls/plot.htm

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December 6, 1964, "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 🦌 first airs on TV featuring also Yukon Cornelius as a prospector/ 🔨🎅

https://mineralsed.ca/blog/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-and-geology/

History_of_Geology, to random German
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December 5th is in the .
According to local , the devilish - a half-man & half-goat demon - leaves his cloven hoof-prints all over the rocks in the 😈⛰

https://tinyurl.com/y3tpvo5w

History_of_Geology, to Argentina German
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December 5, 1918, Elisa Beatriz Bachofen graduates from the University of Buenos Aires becoming the 1st female civil engineer in & Latin , working later on bridge & road construction. A TBM, satellite & conference are named in her honor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa_Bachofen

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December 4 is Saint day, patron saint of artillerymen, including miners working with explosives underground. So she became also patron saint of ⚒️

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