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Born September 25, 1858 • Leipzig • Germany
Died March 7, 1945 (aged 86) • Prague • Czech Republic
Notable Family Members son Walther Penck
Subjects Of Study Pleistocene Epoch • stratigraphy

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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
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Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
Johann Gottlob Lehmann
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Georg Christian Füchsel
German geologist
Albert Oppel
German geologist and paleontologist
Siegfried Passarge
German geographer and geomorphologist
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John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
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William Smith
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Grove Karl Gilbert, 1891
Grove Karl Gilbert
American geologist
Amadeus William Grabau
American geologist
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Arnold Henry Guyot
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Henri-François-Émile Termier
French geologist
Amanz Gressly
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Conybeare, William Daniel
William Daniel Conybeare
British geologist
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French geologist
John Strachey
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Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist

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