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"Continental drift, a theory often considered amusing but rarely important, seems about to become the focus of a revolution in geology"
from "Drifting theories shake up geology," a Science News article published on April 29, 1967 🌍
March 22, 1832, German author and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died on this day. But he was also a mining engineer and geologist.
He suggested some of the colors still used today on geological maps & studied the geology of the Alps ⛰️
The common iron-hydroxide mineral Goethite was named after him 💎
May 13, 1588, birthday of Danish physician & natural historian Ole Worm. His famous cabinet of curiosities in Copenhagen hosted all sorts of natural oddities - including fossils 🐚
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April 9, 1799, birthday of Mary Ann Mantell née Woodhouse.
Together with her husband Gideon Algernon Mantell she discovered in 1821-22 the first tooth of an herbivorous dinosaur - Iguanodon. She also illustrated the discovery (like other geological works published by her husband).
In a letter dated April 13, 1625 the word "microscope" was used for the first time by German Johannes Faber of Bamberg writing to Italian naturalist Federico Cesi, Duke of Aquasparata.
The microscope revolutionized sciences like biology and medicine, but was only late used for geological research
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April 12, 1980, measurements & photos show that the north slope of Mt. St. Helens significantly inflated as magma is rising upwards, forming a bulge between Goat Rock (rocky outcrop on the far right) and Shoestring Glacier (around the summit).
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On 1 July 1858, 2 papers - one by C. Darwin the other by R.A. Wallace -proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection were presented for the very 1st time at a Linnean Society meeting
February 12, 1813, birthday of American geologist James Dwight Dana. Known thanks to his books "System of Mineralogy" and "Manual of Mineralogy." The Manual of Mineralogy is still a standard college textbook in the US today.
Dana's "System of Mineralogy" proposed a system to classify minerals still in part used today, with native elements like gold at the start and complex silicates, like natrolite, at the end.
