History_of_Geologyさんのイラストまとめ

February 12, 1809, birthday of Victorian naturalist and 'rockhound' aboard the H.M.S. Beagle - Charles R. #Darwin 🪨🔨 #DarwinDay
https://t.co/EZXdR1oYG8

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/Nza2f7wMVp

December 11, 2002, the #UN celebrating the International Year of #Mountains declares #OTD the International #MountainDay - 1911 cross-sections of the #Alps showing fold and thrust belt -theory to explain #mountain building ➡⛰️⬅
https://t.co/mFdd8AO7Oi

December 6, 2017, #OTD #GoogleDoodle celebrates the inclusion of the Neapolitan pizza into the UNESCO World Heritage🍕
Maybe the original Margherita pizza was inspired by the minerals found on Mount Vesuvius? Like green Vesuvianite & white Sodalite💎#MineralMonday

November 29, 1970, the burned body of an unknown woman is discovered in the Isdal Valley - the Ice Valley - near Bergen in Norway.
Suicide, murder, even a conspiracy? The case remains unsolved to this day, even if isotope #geology provided some clues
https://t.co/jPsK55Ui8m

October 2, 1902, Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London - Potter was also interested in minerals & fossils - watercolor painting by Potter titled "Eurypterid or Fossil of giant water scorpion"

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 ⚒️
https://t.co/XoJSpxYQjy

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

September 26, 1997, a series of #earthquakes hits the Italian province of Umbria & Marche, 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/8I32xU78ke

September 23, 1832, a young Charles #Darwin recovers his 1st South American #fossils at Punta Alta, Buenos Aires. Among other fossils, he recovers also remains of Toxodon, an enigmatic mammal https://t.co/1tVaCUiQJp 🦴
Artwork by Pelycosaur24 https://t.co/QHvKtU0xE2