History_of_Geologyさんのイラストまとめ

April 6, 1943, The Little Prince was published #OTD 🌋🌋🌋
"I own three volcanoes, which I clean out every week (for I also clean out the one that is extinct; one never knows"

April 6, 1821, the description of the very first ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs by William Conybeare published. Both fossils were found by palaeontologist Mary Anning 🐉💦
https://t.co/g2mhuFyHM5

April 1, 1832, Charles #Darwin's falls for an #AprilFoolsDay prank 🐟
https://t.co/k1NGc5vzO8

March 31, 1850, birthday of Charles Doolittle Walcott, American invertebrate paleontologist famous for the discovery in 1909 of well-preserved Cambrian fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada
https://t.co/fZo3s0LZU6

March 26, 1998, the discovery and description of Scipionyx samniticus - one of best preserved #fossils of a juvenile #dinosaur known so far - published in the journal #Nature 🦖
https://t.co/WsYu6CNOad

March 22, 1785, birthday of British geologist Adam Sedgwick, who named the #Cambrian. He taught a young Charles #Darwin the noble art of #geology in the field and introduced dip & strike to describe layers https://t.co/OLzSCqdU9m

#MineralMonday #History💎 Watercolour painting done between 1797-1802 of clinoclase by Miss F. Rashleigh. It was found in the famous Wheal Gorland mine in Cornwall, where this mineral was first described in 1801
📷 by https://t.co/W0n41DcVBc

March 14, 1835, Charles #Darwin sets off on an expedition into the Andes, where he collects #fossils and sketches #geology ✏️
https://t.co/wr8eIOhGP5

March 12, 1784, birthday of Victorian oddball, theologian & geologist William Buckland. He described the first #dinosaur as Megalosaurus in 1824 based on a fragmentarily preserved jaw.
🖌️ by https://t.co/vQ2MyCyG9e and the original fossil 🦖

March 10, 1709, birthday of German zoologist and Siberia explorer Georg Wilhelm #Steller. The figure - from his travel account - shows the smoking Klyuchevskoy #volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula, the highest (4.649m) active volcano of #Eurasia 🌋
https://t.co/gq56mgnF9y