期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2023; 42 (1)
Born in Geneva in 1857, Albert Brun studied pharmacy before going on to mineralogy. He was a member of many scientific societies and carried out exten......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2023; 42 (1)
This is the second essay of a two-part series on the life and collecting activities of Albert Koch. After Koch traveled to England where he sold his M......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2023; 42 (1)
Profitable gold mining began in the United States with the accidental discovery in 1799 of a seventeen-pound gold nugget in Cabarrus County, North Car......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2023; 42 (1)
Three new pieces of evidence concerning James Croll, the nineteenth century Scottish autodidact and climate change pioneer are revealed. These untold ......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2023; 42 (1)
This paper is dedicated to Andrey Borisovich Vistelius for his contribution to the development of the mathematical geosciences and to his formulation ......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2023; 42 (1)
The first reported dinosaur discovery within the borders of Colorado was found during Ferdinand V. Hayden's U.S. Government sponsored survey to explor......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2023; 42 (1)
The Megatherium was thought to be a massive sloth-like creature that roamed different parts of the world including South America and coastal Georgia o......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2023; 42 (1)
Over the last three-quarters of a century various grain-based classification systems have been developed in order to categorize sandstones on the basi......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2023; 42 (1)
During the nineteenth century, geology was perceived by the British Army as a military science, and two geological survey departments outside Great Br......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2021; 40 (1)
Modern paleontology in Turkey appeared in the early nineteenth century, together with the first modern geological studies. The fossils collected in th......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2021; 40 (1)
The aim of this research is to present the life and research of Alfred Rittmann (1893-1980). He was an Earth scientist in the broadest sense: a petrog......
期刊： EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, 2021; 40 (1)
Military applications of geology became apparent within the United Kingdom during the nineteenth century, and were developed during the First World Wa......
