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December 15, 1989, a Boeing 747 jetliner, carrying 244 passengers & crew, on approach to Anchorage International Airport experienced the temporary loss of all 4 engines, as volcanic ash from Mount Redoubt clogged the turbines ✈️🌋
https://t.co/qMb2YwpV5L
December, 12, 1694, Edmond Halley's paper titled 'Some considerations about the cause of the universal deluge' wherein he argues that the story of Noah's flood could be an account of a cometary impact, is rejected
December 11, 2002, the #UN celebrating the International Year of #Mountains declares #OTD the International #MountainDay - 1911 cross-sections of the #Alps showing fold and thrust belt -theory to explain #mountain building ➡⛰️⬅
https://t.co/rCH4iglPxx
December 6, 2017, #OTD #GoogleDoodle celebrates the inclusion of the Neapolitan pizza into the UNESCO World Heritage🍕
Maybe the original Margherita pizza was inspired by the minerals found on Mount Vesuvius? Like green Vesuvianite & white Sodalite💎 #MineralMonday
November 29, 1970, the burned body of an unknown woman is discovered in the Ice Valley near Bergen, Norway https://t.co/mtoiCwXdjF The case of the Isdal Woman remains unsolved to this day, even if isotope #geology provided some clues 🔎🪨
https://t.co/sVahzp5SQp
November 23, 1746, German zoologist & explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller passed away, the figure - from his travel account - shows Klyuchevskoy #volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula (Siberia), the highest active volcano in Eurasia 🌋
https://t.co/uhn4JxlSd3
new #book📚 Juan Benito & Roc Olivé: Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide (coming summer 2022)
November 10, 1852, died #OTD, British geologist Gideon Algernon Mantell, who was quite puzzled by a strange fossil found in 1822 by his wife: https://t.co/p9xdqcpYVx
Famous for the description of 1st herbivorous dinosaur - Iguanodon - a genus of this group was named after him 🦖
October 13, 1821, birthday of German physician and anthropologist Rudolf Carl Virchow. He studied the first discovered Neanderthal-skull, however, considered it a deformed specimen of a modern man 💀
https://t.co/QxAvfHomIw
You may not know the future, but the past maybe. Artist J.D. Donnelly created a prehistory-inspired tarot set 🃏
https://t.co/llKca2Zp8o