History_of_Geologyさんのイラストまとめ

February 8, 1834, chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev is born in Tobolsk, Russia. He is best remembered for formulating the periodic law and creating a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements 🧪⚛️
https://t.co/zPG0wcmEAi

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, 1829, research by Mary Somerville read at the Royal Society of #London becomes 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/uRbR97d6uv

free paper: What's in a name? The naming of the Permian System in 1841 (drawing by E. Boyd Smith, 1944)
https://t.co/s9URQMxPqM

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

History of paleontology in a nutshell 🥜
Artwork by @bedupolker on twitter

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

Victorian #Holiday greeting cards from 1880 🦖🎄🐘

A rockhounding #Xmas 🎄🪨

#FossilFriday in the anime episode of "Darwins'Bird" the master-thief Lupin III will target the Archaeopteryx's fossil that lies secured in the vault of the Natural History Museum of London