Geologists VS Historians

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Have you heard of Marguerite Thomas Williams? She was one of the first geologists to realise the importance of human activity on flooding in 1942, becoming the first Black person to be awarded a PhD in the USA.

Read more on the https://t.co/4CcMrO17OQ

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NASAs rover is officially on its way to Mars! 🚀 It won't get there until Feb 2021 so in the meantime check out our Q&A below - answers provided by some brilliant planetary geologists 👇👇

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Meet Quasi Crystal - the very first Growbot to be brought to life (dramatized below) by the Geologists.

Instead of using a growbloom, they used a special crystal... with mixed results.

🌱 https://t.co/QwciLi5HPN

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Valuing the sciences: Abel de Pujol's sketch for a ceiling honouring distinguished geologists and minerologists

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May 20, 2018, celebrates Royal Wedding 👑 but see spreading center of an active rift zone

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Safety notice for during "Wash your rocks before licking them (& your hands too)"
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January 26, 1700, a hit Japan without warnings. Only 300 years later discovered the story behind this "Orphan Tsunami", in part by listening to the legend of "Thunderbird 🦅 & Whale 🐋"
https://t.co/1BoeTLOb8y

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The Grizzly Bears was a dining club for geologists in Edinburgh that started in the Victorian times. This is a cartoon that they drew for their dinner book - the record of all their events.

https://t.co/WEfVrZRZlz

#HistoricalGeology

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Died February 22, 1875, Charles Lyell, the advocate of geology. His argument that the present geological forces can explain the past revolutionized He also popularized this young science & influenced generations of geologists, like Darwin https://t.co/ayl0PXt1lB

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A little humorous shout out to all female from the amazing 😜

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January 26, 1700, a hit Japan without warnings. Only 3 centuries later geologists discovered the story behind this "Orphan Tsunami", in part by listening to the story of "Thunderbird 🦅 & Whale 🐋" by the tribes living along the Cascade Range 🌋 https://t.co/0lp8eftOXT

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Merry Christmas - I was your Secret Santa for the exchange!

(I asked my partner what geologists did and he said “hold hammers next to things”. Google Image Search proved him right.)

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Thinking today about & geology as I look closely at ‘Strata’ with our Friends: “If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.(36.115)”

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It’s all about wind & rocks. A morning of speed & swell left us a queasy yellow, & the rain stole the coast from our sights - now in Loch Glencoul sunny & calm. the geologists are filming, & our sketch books & notebooks are out.

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Hot Rocks: Artists Explore The Obsessiveness Of Mineral Collectors And Geologists https://t.co/dHwF4O4auR

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