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Stained glass windows dating to 1330-1340 in the Freiburg Minster, Saxony, showing the hard work of medieval miners ⚒️
June 14, 1900, Hawaii islands annexed by the U.S. 🇺🇸
1938 geological map of Ohau, 1942 map of Maui, 1945 map of Hawaii
#GoogleDoodle celebrates birthday of Italian astrophysicist, science advocate & political activist Margherita Hack (with her🐱) #OTD in 1922. The asteroid Hack 8558 is named after her 🌑
https://t.co/kG27rhWxXE
June 8, 1944, after successful landfall in #Normandy the Allied troops slowly advance towards the city of Caen, to take control over the strategic important limestone plateau of Calvados.
Geological map from 1943.
https://t.co/ImgY3DG4EW
#FossilFriday May 21, 1799, #birthday of Mary #Anning. Carpenter daughter, she founded a fossil business in Lyme Regis, Dorset, making important discoveries like complete skeletons of Ichthyosaurus & Plesiosaurus
https://t.co/qahNtoOLTQ
@wukaimi @GeologischeBA "Geologische Übersichtskarte der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie" (1867-1871), first map including quaternary sediments, like ice-age windblown dust Löss
May 20, 2018, #GoogleDoodle celebrates Royal Wedding 👑 but #geologists see the spreading center of an active rift zone 🌋
April 15, 1993, died #OTD, geophysicist & geologist John Tuzo Wilson, who argued for the existence of “hotspot" and introduced transform faults into plate tectonics. The Wilson cycle explains the periodic origins of oceans & mountains ⛰️🏖️
https://t.co/OJ4klZTg9u
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/qahNtoOLTQ
April 1, 1832, Charles #Darwin's falls for an #AprilFoolsDay prank 🐟
https://t.co/k1NGc5vzO8