History_of_Geologyさんのイラストまとめ

December 11, 2002, the #UN celebrating the International Year of #Mountains declares #OTD the International #MountainDay - 1911 cross-sections of the #Alps showing the nappe-theory to explain #mountain building ➡🏔️⬅ https://t.co/rCH4iglPxx

#podclast 🎧🔎 November 29, 1970, the burned body of an unknown woman is discovered in the Ice Valley, near Bergen, Norway https://t.co/IpwJ8xSdo3 The case remains unsolved to this day, even if isotope #geology provided some clues 🔎 https://t.co/eXtWnb235x

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 of Eurasia 🌋

#FossilFriday fossil shark teeth may inspired shark-like monster myths found in South American cultures🦈 Carcharocles megalodon, Pisco-Formation, Peru
https://t.co/Z8x1moePHJ

Early 19th-century British fossil collector, amateur palaeontologist and artist Elisabeth Philpot and her Dimorphodon by https://t.co/ZNevAvKVxN

November 10, 1852, died #OTD, British geologist Gideon Algernon Mantell who was quite puzzled by strange fossils found in 1822 https://t.co/p9xdqcpYVx Famous for the scientific description of 1st herbivorous dinosaur - Iguanodon - a genus of this group was named after him 🦕

New #book 📚 Charles #Darwin’s Wonderful Plants; a Tour of His Botanical Legacy 🌼🌸🌷 https://t.co/xSR0823ecP

#podclast ⚒👂 Plate Tectonics, the Theory That Changed Earth Science - Third Pod from the Sun talks with pioneering geophysicist Xavier Le Pichon about what it was like to be a young scientist challenging deeply held theories
https://t.co/2d4amoed2P

October 20, 1975, the Soviet space probe Venera 9 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, sending a lander to the surface of Venus. The lander is fried after 53 minutes on the basaltic surface 🛰🌗

October 15, 1999, in a press conference hosted by the National Geographic magazine, "Archaeoraptor liaoningensis" is presented to the public. Later revealed to be a fake made from Microraptor, named in 2000, parts of the bird Yanornis & 1 yet undescribed species (?) 🐦🦖