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Born September 12, 1811 • Hingham • Massachusetts
Died August 7, 1898 (aged 86) • New Hampshire
Notable Works “Geology of New York”
Subjects Of Study geosyncline • orogeny
Émile Haug
French geologist
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American paleontologist
Amadeus William Grabau
American geologist
Henry Darwin Rogers
American geologist
Walter Herman Bucher
American geologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Pallas, engraved portrait
Peter Simon Pallas
German naturalist
Henri-François-Émile Termier
French geologist
Marcel-Alexandre Bertrand
French geologist
Joachim Barrande
French geologist
Conybeare, William Daniel
William Daniel Conybeare
British geologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
Albert Heim
Swiss geologist
Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
Albert Oppel
German geologist and paleontologist
William Maclure
American geologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Cross section of Earth showing the core, mantle, and crust
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