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"Mortals put an end to the darkness;
they search out the farthest recesses
for ore in the blackest darkness.
They tunnel through the rock;
their eyes see all its treasures.
They search the sources of the rivers
and bring hidden things to light"
Job 28
June 14, 1900, Hawaii islands annexed by the #US 🇺🇸
1938 geological map of Ohau, 1942 map of Maui, 1945 map of Hawaii
"Worthy Descendents" by Greer Strothers
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June 12, 1870, birthday of German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach. Famous for the discovery of the holotype of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus
🦖 https://t.co/WS6p1E61aH
🖌 https://t.co/lwAEnPuCZJ
May 20, 2018, #GoogleDoodle celebrates Royal Wedding 👑 but #geologists see the spreading center of an active rift zone 🌋
May 7, 2012, palaeoclimatological research claims #dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the Earth
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https://t.co/fzg8xim9px
Podokesaurus is now the official State #Dinosaur of Massachusetts. The species was discovered in 1910 by American geologist Mignon Talbot, the first woman to find and describe a dinosaur 🦖
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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
May 1, 1851, the "Great Exhibition" of Crystal Palace in #London causes the first Dinomania in history 🦖🦕 #Dinosaurs & other prehistoric beats ended even on holiday cards 🥳
https://t.co/XZe3NqcArP
April 26, 1774, birthday of German #geologist Christian Leopold von Buch. Introduced the Jurassic, the concept of guide #fossils, published some of the first geological maps & argued that the #Alps🏔 formed by magmatic intrusions 🌋
https://t.co/jkdW3zeW5s (🇩🇪)