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September 24, 1936 birthday of American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, filmmaker & screenwriter James "Jim" Maury Henson 💎
September 23, 1832, a young Charles #Darwin recovers his 1st South American #fossils at Punta Alta, Buenos Aires. Among other fossils, he recovers also remains of Toxodon, an enigmatic mammal https://t.co/4znXdw82Qw 🦴
Artwork by Pelycosaur24 https://t.co/lGeEtF1Pp6
September 19, 1792, birthday of French scientist Gustave de Coriolis, worked on energy transfer. The Coriolis effect explains the spin of large scale currents, like #hurricans, in a rotating system https://t.co/ZumbK9lAm4
The 3.168m Monte Permo is the first peak in the #Dolomites to be climbed on September 19, 1857, by Irish alpinist John Ball & a local guide. Geological map from 1934 by pioneering geologist Maria M. Ogilvie Gordon https://t.co/Jcb0YdXzEh
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September 15, 1590, the strongest historic #earthquake to hit Vienna in #Austria with an estimated magnitude of 5-6 causes widespread damage as church towers collapse
September 14, 1940, died #OTD, Swiss geologist Émile Argand. As an early supporter of Alfred Wegener he used continental drift theory to explain the #Alps as a succession of overthrusts & folded tectonic nappes ➡⛰️⬅ https://t.co/sp8FiF6Ip7
#FossilFriday The first drawing of an Otodus #megalodon tooth was published in 1554 by French geographer André Thevet 🦈
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September 9, 1794, birthday of William Lonsdale, based on his research on fossils in Devon (UK) in 1839 the Devonian was introduced into the chrono-stratigraphic column
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In the night from September 6, to 7, 1936, the last known surviving #thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) died in captivity at Hobart Zoo (Tasmania) 🐅
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September 6, 1802, birthday of French naturalist Alicide d'Orbigny, pioneer of the study of microfossils 🦠🔬
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