History_of_Geologyさんのイラストまとめ

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
https://t.co/4SHUDIfYdF

After the February 5, 1783, #earthquake that hit the Italian provinces of Reggio Calabria & Sicily, a 30 km long fault rupture was observed along the Aspromonte mountain. This is the first drawing of a fault ever published
https://t.co/SlhQ64oiLp

February 2, 1907, died #OTD, Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich #Mendeleev. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements⚛️
https://t.co/DEMuxodVbc

February 2, 1829, research by Mary Somerville read at the Royal Society of #London becomes the first paper by a woman to be published in their journal.
Somerville was also one of the first to publish a textbook on Physical Geography in 1848 🌐
https://t.co/uRbR97dEk3

January 21, 1793, a major event of the Révolution française - Louis XVI is executed in #Paris. Many political & economic factors played a role in the outbreak of the French Revolution, maybe even the eruption of Laki in #Iceland 20 years earlier 🌋
https://t.co/ycgIr3Z7GK

January 18, 1823, William Buckland explores the Paviland Caves, Wales, discovering the 'Red Lady of Paviland'. It was, in fact, a male & at an estimated 33.000 years old, is one of the oldest ceremonial burials of a modern human in Western Europe
https://t.co/bQBgIKnsAI

January 17, 1911, Ernst Stromer begins to explore the Bahariya Depression, Egypt, where he will find the remains of 4 entirely new #dinosaurs: Aegyptosaurus, Bahariasaurus, Carcharodontosaurus & Spinosaurus aegyptiacus 🦴
🦖 https://t.co/WS6p1E6z0f
🖌 https://t.co/lwAEnPvaPh

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

#Holiday greeting cards from ~ 1880 by London based publisher De La Rue based on the newest paleontological discoveries of his time 🦖🎄🐘

December 24, 1237, first mention of the "good silver from the Schneeberg" in a letter. Situated at 2.300m a.s.l in the Tyrolean #Alps, the "snowy mountain" was one of the most important mines in medieval times⚒️
https://t.co/7KWko7ldnc