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earth
in progress· 10 figures
The planet as primary record — geology, climate, biogeochemistry, the living biosphere. Strata, ice cores, magnetic reversals, mass extinctions, the rules of how this rock organises matter and life.
Figures· 10 canonical
Nicolas Steno
1638-1686 · Copenhagen, Florence · Danish anatomy and natural history
stratigraphysuperpositionfossils
James Hutton
1726-1797 · Edinburgh · Scottish geology
deep-timeuniformitarianismsiccar-point
Charles Lyell
1797-1875 · London · British geology
uniformitarianismprinciples-of-geology
Alfred Wegener
1880-1930 · Marburg, Hamburg, Graz · German meteorology and geophysics
continental-driftpangaeadelayed-canon
Milutin Milanković
1879-1958 · Belgrade · Serbian astronomy and geophysics
milankovic-cyclesorbital-forcingpaleoclimate
Marie Tharp
1920-2006 · Lamont Geological Observatory · American marine geology
mid-atlantic-ridgeseafloor-mappingrift-valley
Klaus Schmidt
1953-2014 · German Archaeological Institute · German prehistoric archaeology
gobekli-tepepre-pottery-neolithicmonumental-architecture
Robert M. Schoch
1957- · Boston University · American geology
sphinxweathering-geologyearly-holocene
John Anthony West
1932-2018 · Independent · American alternative Egyptology
alternative-egyptologysymbolistschoch-collaborator
Randall Carlson
1951- · Independent · American geomythology and catastrophism
channeled-scablandsyounger-dryascatastrophism