History_of_Geologyさんのイラストまとめ

Somebody made a series of caricatures of "bone collectors" of past and recent times 🦴
https://t.co/dYuXBMsxbJ

September 29, 480, using a narrow bay formed by intersecting fault systems, the Greek city-states under Themistocles defeat the Persian navy in the battle of Salamis ⚒️⚔️

September 28, 1980, Carl Sagan's 13 part "#Cosmos" premieres on PBS✨🌌 7 years later #OTD "#StarTrek: The Next Generation" debuts on TV 🖖

September 26, 1997, a series of #earthquakes hits the Italian province of Umbria. 11 people are killed in the town of Assisi - Fresco by Giotto (ca. 1200) in the basilica of San Francesco in Assisi showing the aftermath of a quake
https://t.co/IWNHlWA47R

September 23, 1832, a young Charles #Darwin recovers his 1st South American #fossils at Punta Alta, Buenos Aires. Among other large vertebrates, he recovers also remains of the puzzling Toxodon
https://t.co/4znXdw82Qw 🦴
Artwork by Pelycosaur24 https://t.co/lGeEtF1Pp6

September 19, 1792, died #OTD, 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 3.168 m high Monte Permo is the first peak in the #Dolomites to be officially 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

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
https://t.co/ewCIvMW1Mi

September 14, 1940, died #OTD, Swiss geologist Émile Argand. As an early supporter of A. Wegener he used continental drift theory to explain the #Alps as a succession of overthrusted & deformed tectonic nappes ⇢⛰️⛰️⇠
https://t.co/sp8FiF6Ip7

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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