Geology

Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920, August 23, 2006) was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer. In the 1950s, she collaborated with geologist Bruce Heezen to produce the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor.

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He earned a doctorate in geology from Harvard University in 1953.

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Reginald Aldworth Daly (May 19, 1871, September 19, 1957) was a Canadian geologist.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ; May 28, 1807, December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.

Adam Sedgwick (; 22 March 1785-27 January 1873) was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology.

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet (19 February 1792-22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigating and describing the Silurian, Devonian and Permian systems.

William Buckland DD, FRS (12 March 1784-14 August 1856) was an English theologian, geologist and palaeontologist.

Arthur Holmes (14 January 1890-20 September 1965) was an English geologist who made two major contributions to the understanding of geology.

Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790-10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist.

Paul Felix Hoffman, FRSC, OC (born March 21, 1941) is a Canadian geologist and Sturgis Hooper Professor Emeritus of Geology at Harvard University.

Richard Hugh Sibson (born 1945) is a New Zealand structural geologist and emeritus professor at the University of Otago, who has received numerous honors and awards for his work in the field of earthquake research.

Maureen E. Raymo (born 1959) is an American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist.

Susan L. Brantley (born 1958) is an American geologist and geochemist who is the Dr.

Richard Blane Alley (born 18 August 1957) is an American geologist and Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.

Edward Manin Stolper (born December 16, 1952) is an American geologist, petrologist, and planetologist.

Barbara Sherwood Lollar, (born February 19, 1963) is a Canadian geologist and academic known for her research into billion-year-old water and discoveries on the interface of the carbon cycle and hydrogeology, including the origin and fate H2, He, CO2, and CH4, deep subsurface microbiology, and the

Sir Nicholas John Shackleton (23 June 1937-24 January 2006) was an English geologist and paleoclimatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period.

Douglas James Shearman (2 July 1918, Isleworth, Middlesex, 12 May 2003, Cassington, Oxfordshire) was a British geologist and sedimentologist, who made significant contributions to the study of evaporites and other sediments and sedimentary rocks in desert climates.

John Frederick Dewey (born 22 May 1937) is a British structural geologist and a strong proponent of the theory of plate tectonics, building upon the early work undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s.

William Sefton Fyfe, (4 June 1927-11 November 2013) was a New Zealand geologist and Professor Emeritus in the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario.

Edward A. "Ted" Irving, (27 May 1927 - 25 February 2014) was a British-Canadian geologist.

Gerald J. Wasserburg (March 25, 1927 - June 13, 2016) was an American geologist.

Martin Harold Phillips Bott (12 July 1926 - 20 October 2018) was a British geologist and Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Durham, England.

Cecil Edgar Tilley FRS, Hon FRSE, PGS (14 May 1894-24 January 1973) was an Australian-British petrologist and geologist.

Raymond Cecil Moore (February 20, 1892, Roslyn, Washington, April 16, 1974, Lawrence, Kansas) was an American geologist and paleontologist.

Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, OBE, FRS, (3 April 1896-28 May 1990) was an English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist, and soldier.

Hans Ramberg (15 March 1917-7 June 1998) was a Norwegian-Swedish geologist.

Francis John Pettijohn (June 20, 1904, April 23, 1999) was an American geologist who served for many years on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University.

Hollis Dow Hedberg (May 29, 1903, August 14, 1988; nickname: "El Doctor Hedberg") was an American geologist specializing in petroleum exploration.

Owen Thomas Jones, FRS FGS (16 April 1878-5 May 1967) was a Welsh geologist.

Olaf Holtedahl (24 June 1885-26 August 1975) was a Norwegian geologist (Dr.philos., 1913).

Pentti Elias Eskola (8 January 1883-6 December 1964) was a Finnish geologist who specialised in the petrology of granites and developed the concept of metamorphic facies.

Pierre Eugène Marie Joseph Pruvost (1 August 1890-5 June 1967) was a French geologist who worked as a professor of geology at the University of Lille.

Hugh Falconer (29 February 1808-31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist.

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795-27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist.

Christian Leopold von Buch (26 April 1774-4 March 1853), usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder (now a part of Angermünde, Brandenburg) and is remembered as one of the most important contributors to geology in the first half of the

William Daniel Conybeare FRS (7 June 178712 August 1857), dean of Llandaff, was an English geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman.

William Lonsdale (9 September 1794 in Bath11 November 1871 in Bristol), English geologist and palaeontologist, won the Wollaston medal in 1846 for his research on the various kinds of fossil corals.

Sir Joseph Prestwich (12 March 1812 - 23 June 1896) was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds.

William Henry Fitton (24 January 178013 May 1861) was an Irish medical doctor and amateur geologist.

Étienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon, Vicomte d'Archiac (24 September 180224 December 1868) was a French geologist and paleontologist.

Sir Richard John Griffith Bt. FRS FRSE FGS LLD (20 September 1784-22 September 1878), was an Irish geologist, mining engineer and chairman of the Board of Works of Ireland, who completed the first complete geological map of Ireland and was the author of the valuation of Ireland; subsequently

Sir William Edmond Logan, FRSE FRS FGS (20 April 1798-22 June 1875), was a Canadian-born geologist and the founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada.

Joachim Barrande (11 August 1799-5 October 1883) was a French geologist and palaeontologist.

Heinrich Georg Bronn (3 March 1800-5 July 1862) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen FRS (17 March 1808-25 November 1884) was an English geologist.

Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay (sometimes spelt Ramsey) (31 January 18149 December 1891) was a Scottish geologist.

James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813, April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist.

Oswald Heer (or Oswald von Heer) (31 August 1809-27 September 1883), Swiss geologist and naturalist, was born at Niederuzwil in Canton of St.

Bernhard Studer HFRSE (21 August 17942 May 1887), was a Swiss geologist who published a two-volume Geologie der Schweiz (Geology of Switzerland, 1851,1853) that helped subsequent geologists like Eduard Suess despite the fact that he suggested the formation of the alps by the now obsolete primary

William Thomas Blanford (7 October 183223 June 1905) was an English geologist and naturalist.

Jean Albert Gaudry (16 September 1827-27 November 1908) was a French geologist and palaeontologist.

John Whitaker Hulke FRCS FRS FGS (6 November 1830-19 February 1895) was a British surgeon, geologist and fossil collector.

Henry Benedict Medlicott, FRS (3 August 1829-6 April 1905) was an Irish geologist who worked in India.

Thomas George Bonney (27 July 1833-10 December 1923) was an English geologist, president of the Geological Society of London.

John Wesley Judd (18 February 1840-3 March 1916) was a British geologist.

Sir Archibald Geikie (28 December 1835-10 November 1924) was a Scottish geologist and writer.

Prof Ferdinand Zirkel FRS(For) HFRSE (20 May 183811 June 1912) was a German geologist and petrographer.

Charles Lapworth (20 September 1842-13 March 1920) was a headteacher and an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.

Charles Eugene Barrois (21 August 18515 November 1939) was a French geologist and palaeontologist.

Albert Heim (12 April 184931 August 1937) was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz.

Sir Jethro Justinian Harris Teall FRS HFRSE PGS (5 January 1849-2 July 1924) was a British geologist and petrographist.

Horace Bolingbroke Woodward , (20 August 1848-6 February 1914) was a British geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wales from 1867 until his retirement in 1908. He was vice-president of the Geological Society, where he was elected a Fellow in 1868; elected a Fellow of

Sir Lazarus Fletcher (3 March 1854-6 January 1921) was a British geologist.

Reverend Osmond Fisher (17 November 1817 - 12 July 1914) was an English clergyman, geologist and geophysicist.

Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David, (28 January 1858-28 August 1934) was a Welsh Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and military veteran.

Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (trl. Aljeksandr Pjetrovič Karpinskij; 7 January 1847 [O.S. 26 December 1846] - 15 July 1936) was a prominent Russian and Soviet geologist and mineralogist, and the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and later Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in

Sir Aubrey Strahan KBE FRS (20 April 1852-4 March 1928) was a British geologist.

Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer (20 November 1858-24 July 1943) was a Swedish geologist who made significant contributions to Quaternary geology, particularly geomorphology and geochronology.

Alfred Harker FRS (19 February 1859-28 July 1939) was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography.

George William Lamplugh (8 April 1859-9 October 1926) was a British geologist.

William Whitehead Watts FRS HFRSE FGS FMS LLD (7 June 1860-30 July 1947) was a British geologist.

Sir Albert Charles Seward FRS (9 October 1863-11 April 1941) was a British botanist and geologist.

Johan Herman Lie Vogt (14 October 18583 January 1932) was a Norwegian geologist and petrologist.

Sir John Smith Flett (26 June 1869-26 January 1947) was a Scottish physician and geologist.

Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff (27 February 1860-26 March 1942) was a Dutch geologist, biologist and explorer.

Waldemar Lindgren (February 14, 1860, November 3, 1939) was a Swedish-American geologist and a founder of modern economic geology.

Maurice Lugeon FRS(For) HFRSE FGS (10 July 1870 - 23 October 1953) was a Swiss geologist, and the pioneer of nappe tectonics.

Frank Dawson Adams (September 17, 1859, December 26, 1942) was a Canadian geologist.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (; September 25, 1843, November 15, 1928) was an American geologist and educator.

Arthur Philemon Coleman (April 4, 1852, February 26, 1939) was a Canadian geologist and academic.

Andrew Cowper Lawson (July 25, 1861, June 16, 1952) was a Scots-born Canadian geologist who became professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Nelson Horatio Darton (December 17, 1865 - February 28, 1948) was a geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey.

Norman Levi Bowen FRS (June 21, 1887, September 11, 1956) was a Canadian geologist.

Charles Kenneth Leith (January 20, 1875, September 13, 1956) was an American geologist.

Thomas Wayland Vaughan (September 20, 1870, January 16, 1952) was an American geologist and oceanographer.

Hans Cloos (8 November 1885 - 26 September 1951) was a prominent German structural geologist.

Wendell Phillips Woodring (13 June 1891, Reading, Pennsylvania, 29 January 1983, Santa Barbara, California) was an American paleontologist and geologist.

Esper Signius Larsen, Jr. (14 March 1879-8 March 1961) was an American geologist and petrologist who contributed to techniques for age estimation using the lead-uranium ratio or Larsen method and the petrological study of non-opaque minerals using optical microscopy techniques.

Maurice Irénée Marie Gignoux (19 October 1881-20 October 1955) was a renowned French geologist who was a specialist on the stratigraphy of the Alps.

Hermann Max Bruno Sander (23 February 1884, Innsbruck, 5 September 1979, Innsbruck) was an Austrian geologist.

James Gilluly (June 24, 1896, December 29, 1980) was an American geologist.

Walter Hermann Bucher (March 12, 1888 - February 17, 1965) was a German-American geologist and paleontologist.

William Walden Rubey (December 19, 1898, April 12, 1974) was an American geologist.

Donnel Foster Hewett (June 24, 1881, Irwin, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1971) was an American geologist and mineralogist, known for his leading role in the 1905 discovery of the Minas Ragra vanadium ore deposit in Peru.

Philip Burke King (September 24, 1903 - April 25, 1987) was a geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey.

John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908, April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist, geologist and professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics.

Marshall Kay (November 10, 1904, September 4, 1975) was a geologist and professor at Columbia University.

Wilmot Hyde Bradley (commonly shortened to Bill Bradley; April 4, 1899 - April 12, 1979) was an American geologist who served as Chief Geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey from 1944 to 1959, and as President of the Geological Society of America in 1965. He was the tenth Chief Geologist

Marion King Hubbert (October 5, 1903 - October 11, 1989) was an American geologist and geophysicist.

Laurence L. Sloss (August 26, 1913, November 2, 1996) was an American geologist.

Marland Pratt Billings (March 11, 1902, October 9, 1996) was an American structural geologist who was considered one of the greatest authorities on North American geology.

Warren B. Hamilton (May 13, 1925, October 26, 2018) was an American geologist known for integrating observed geology and geophysics into planetary-scale syntheses describing the dynamic and petrologic evolution of Earth's crust and mantle.

Alfred Georg Hubertus Fischer (December 12, 1920, July 2, 2017) was a German-American geologist.

John Robert Lawrence Allen, (25 October 1932-18 October 2020) was a British geologist who made substantial contributions to sedimentology and archeology.

John Dallas Bredehoeft (February 28, 1933, January 1, 2023) was an American geologist and groundwater scientist who worked for 32 years at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) before founding his own consulting group in the 1990s.

Robert "Bob" Louis "Luigi" Folk (September 30, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, June 4, 2018) was an American geologist and petrologist, specializing in sedimentology, sandstone petrology, and carbonate petrology.

Peter R. Vail (January 13, 1930, December 28, 2024) was an American geologist and geophysicist, the namesake of the Vail curve of sea level changes.

Robert Dean Hatcher Jr. (born October 22, 1940, in Madison, Tennessee) is an American structural geologist, known as one of the world's leading experts on the geology of the southern and central Appalachians.

Kevin Charles Anthony Burke (November 13, 1929, March 21, 2018) was a geologist known for his contributions in the theory of plate tectonics.

Burrell Clark Burchfiel (March 21, 1934, February 9, 2024) was an American structural geologist.

Raymond Alexander Price, (March 25, 1933, October 16, 2024) was a Canadian geologist.

George Plafker (March 6, 1929, April 2, 2026) was an American geologist and seismologist who made significant contributions to both fields, with research focused on subduction, tsunami, and the geology of Alaska.

Kent Condie (born 28 November 1936) is an American geologist and professor emeritus of Geochemistry at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

James Gregory Moore (born 30 April 1930, Palo Alto, California) is a geologist and winner of the 2020 Penrose Medal.

Pramatha Nath Bose (12 May 1855-1934) was a pioneering Indian geologist and paleontologist.

Sharat Kumar Roy (27 August 1897-17 April 1962) was an American geologist of Indian origin.

Lee Sang-Mook (born October 18, 1962) is a South Korean marine geologist and computational scientist.

Kadir Rakhimovich Timergazin (; ; 4 April 1963) was a Soviet petroleum geologist and a professor of geological-mineralogical science.

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Franz Ritter von Hauer, or Franz von Hauer (30 January 1822 - 20 March 1899) was an Austrian geologist.

Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

The rock cycle is a basic concept in geology that describes transitions through geologic time among the three main rock types: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.

The geologic time scale or geological time scale describes how geologic time is divided into standardised intervals.

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis, lit. 'obtained by digging') is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

Niels Steensen (; Latinized to Nicolas Steno or Nicolaus Stenonius; 1 January 1638-25 November 1686 ) was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years.

David D. Pollard (born October 12, 1943) is an American professor in geomechanics and structural geology at Stanford University.

Francis Parker Shepard (10 May 1897 - 25 April 1985) was an American sedimentologist most associated with his studies of submarine canyons and seafloor currents around continental shelves and slopes.

Norman Dennis Newell (January 27, 1909, April 18, 2005) was an American professor of geology at Columbia University, and chairman and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

John J. Chambers Crowell (May 12, 1917, State College, Pennsylvania, May 13, 2015, Montecito, California) was an American professor of geology, known for his research in tectonics, sedimentation, and the geology of California, especially his studies of the San Andreas Fault.

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Professor Leonard Johnston Wills (27 February 1884-12 December 1979), known as 'Jack' to friends and family, was one of the leading British geologists of his generation.

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Robert Phillip Sharp (24 June 1911-25 May 2004) was an American geomorphologist and expert on the geological surfaces of the Earth and the planet Mars.

Dietz, born in Westfield, New Jersey, was a marine geologist, geophysicist and oceanographer who conducted pioneering research along with Harry Hammond Hess concerning seafloor spreading, published as early as 1960-1961.

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Suzanne Mahlburg Kay (née Mahlburg) is the William & Katherine Snee Professor of Geological Sciences at Cornell University.

Abhijit Mukherjee (born 1975) is an Indian professor, scientist and currently Professor of Geology and Geophysics and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of IIT Kharagpur.

The Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis, also known as the Morley-Vine-Matthews hypothesis, was the first key scientific test of the seafloor spreading theory of continental drift and plate tectonics.

The Toba eruption (also called the Toba supereruption and the Youngest Toba eruption) was a large eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia.