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Also Known As John Tuzo Wilson
Born October 24, 1908 • Ottawa • Canada
Died April 15, 1993 (aged 84) • Toronto • Canada
Notable Works “A New Class of Faults and Their Bearing on Continental Drift”
Subjects Of Study continent • fault • plate tectonics
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez
American geologist
Vladimir Vladimirovich Belousov
Soviet geologist
Marion King Hubbert
American geophysicist
Logan, Sir William Edmond
Sir William Edmond Logan
Welsh-Canadian geologist
Reginald Aldworth Daly
Canadian-American geologist
Sir John William Dawson
Canadian geologist
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
William Maclure
American geologist
Conrad Schlumberger
German geophysicist
François-Emile Matthes
American 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

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