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May 14, 1915, Lassen Peak in California erupts violently - it was the last eruption in the continental U.S. prior to Mount St. Helens in 1980 🌋
https://t.co/TpPJDGYWod
May 12, 1835, Charles #Darwin visits the Panuncillo Copper Mine in North Chile - here a large magmatic intrusion formed a skarn rich in copper minerals 💎
May 12, 1931, the body of Alfred "continental drift" Wegener is found on the ice of Greenland. He died together with his guide & friend Villumsen lost in a blizzard during a polar expedition, aged just 50 🌍 https://t.co/Q2fQVCDsqg
May 9, 2017, fossil of Chinese feathered baby dinosaur formally identified as Beibeilong sinensis - baby dragon in Chinese 🐉
https://t.co/j8MeNWajGG
(🖌️by Zhao Chuang)
May 6, 2008, Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4.500 people 🌋
https://t.co/wwjn4KoIGb
May 2, 1602, birthday of German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher. He imagined Earth's section in his "Mundus Subterraneus" (1664-1665) as crossed by veins of water and fire 🌋https://t.co/vK3ih5B9Fu
April 30, 1777, birthday of the German geophysicists German Carl Friedrich Gauß. Apart from his contributions to the field of mathematics, he studied also earth's geomagnetism 🧲 https://t.co/Prxgyl15KN