History_of_Geologyさんのイラストまとめ

February 6, 1796, birthday of John S. Henslow, botanist & professor of mineralogy who introduced Charles #Darwin into #geology 🌼🌿 https://t.co/gX0SPyEZb8 💎⚒
Geological map of Anglesey made in 1821 by Henslow

February 5, 1770, birthday of French naturalist & mineralogist Alexandre Brongniart. Together with Cuvier he published one of the 1st stratigraphic sections & geological maps in 1808, showing the stratigraphy of the basin of Paris
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January 26, 1700, a #tsunami hit Japan without warnings. Only 300 years later #geologists discovered the story behind this "Orphan Tsunami", in part by listening to the legend of "Thunderbird 🦅 & Whale 🐋"
https://t.co/1BoeTLOb8y

January 14, 1801, birthday of French geologist & palaeontologist Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart. His pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of paleobotany🌿 https://t.co/1ocnwm5U5w

January 6, 1879, birthday of Swiss geologist Émile Argand
🎂 As an early supporter of Alfred Wegener (who will present his theory #OTD in 1912) , he used continental drift theory to explain the #Alps as overthrusted & deformed tectonic nappes ⛰️⛰️
https://t.co/sp8FiF6Ip7

December 30, 1872, off Vigo, Spain, the HMS Challenger made its first dredging operation. The Challenger expedition was at the time the most ambitious scientific project to study life forms and sediments of the deep ocean ⛵
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#Holiday greeting cards from ~1880 🦖🎄🐘

December 22, 2018, photos show Anak #Krakatau volcano both before & after a phreatic eruption triggered a massive landslide. The volcano's height went from 338 m to 110 m. At least 200 people have been killed after a tsunami hit the coast around Indonesia's Sunda Strait

December 15, 1989, a Boeing 747 jetliner carrying 244 passengers & crew on approach to Anchorage International Airport experienced loss of all 4 engines as volcanic ash from Mount Redoubt clogged the turbines 🌋 https://t.co/bALgxIVCPh

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 ☄️