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faux amphibolite
pahoehoe
alkalic syenite
banded-iron formation (BIF)
coal barges
thermal conductivity measurement
Fault types in tectonic earthquakes
crustal generation and destruction
Mayon Volcano
Steno's four laws of stratigraphy
What are glaciers? Ask a glaciologist
How volcanoes work, explained by a volcanologist
Investigate the role of water in erosion and in the greater geologic rock cycle
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Dorothy Hill
Dorothy Hill
Australian geologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Grove Karl Gilbert, 1891
Grove Karl Gilbert
American geologist
Abraham Werner
Abraham Gottlob Werner
German geologist
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
British geologist
Steno, Nicolaus
Nicolaus Steno
Danish geologist
Suess, Eduard
Eduard Suess
Austrian geologist
J. Tuzo Wilson
Canadian geologist
Alexandre Brongniart, plaster medallion by David d'Angers
Alexandre Brongniart
French geologist
King, Clarence
Clarence King
American geologist
Gene Shoemaker
American astrogeologist

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