August 19, 1921, birthday of Eugene Wesley „Gene“ Roddenberry - creator of the #StarTrek Universe, where you can spot some fascinating #geology ⚒🖖
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#FossilFriday 3D-Models Show That 540-Million-Year Old Bag-Like Creature Is Not Earliest Human Ancestor 🦠🚫🧍
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August 19, 1836, Charles #Darwin geologizes on the island of Terçeira, Azores "...built of thin strata of fine-grained, harsh, brown-coloured tuff"🌋 on his last stop during the Beagle voyage ⚒️
forbes.com/sites/davidbre
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August 19, 1883, birthday of Russian #mineralogist Leonid Alexejewitsch Kulik, #meteorite expert & first to explore the mystery of #Tunguska ☄️ tinyurl.com/y3gfmvnb
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August 19, 1970, the Glomar Challenger discovers first evidence that the Mediterranean Sea dried out some 7 million years ago, forming vast deposits of gypsum on the seafloor 💎🚢
forbes.com/sites/davidbre
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A newly discovered impact crater in the Atlantic Ocean hints at the possibility that more than one #asteroid hit #Earth during the time when #dinosaurs went extinct
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August 18, 1868, 1st evidence of the element Helium is observed in the solar-spectrum by astronomer Pierre Janssan. Helium is useful in #geology to date rocks, using the Th/U-He radioactive decay 🎈
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August 18, 1741, first mention of #fossils from the #Dolomites in a public lecture by Austrian physician and naturalist Franz Ferdinand von Giuliani ⛰️
bressan-geoconsult.eu/the-fossils-of
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August 18, 2019, scientists & politicians mourned the first Icelandic #Glacier to diseappear because of #ClimateChange With Ceremony And 'Letter To The Future' 🏔️
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3D-Models Show That 540-Million-Year Old Bag-Like Creature Is Not Earliest Human Ancestor 🦠🚫🧍
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August 17, 1970, drilling operations by the Glomar Challenger over the Mid-Atlantic-Ridge provide further evidence of plate tectonics
pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/gl
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August 17, 1829, German explorer Alexander von Humboldt reaches the border between #Russia and #China, noting the burning coal seams
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam
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August 17, 1959, remains of the Hilgard Lodge building after an Mw 7.3 #earthquake near Hebgen Lake, #Montana. The earthquake claimed 28 lives and triggered a massive landslide that blocked the Madison River
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Hebg
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August 17, 1836, Charles #Darwin leaves South America for the last time on board of HMS Beagle during a short stop coming from South Africa to cross the Atlantic Ocean heading back home ⚒️
tinyurl.com/csj24s65
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August 17, 1834, Charles #Darwin reaches the top of Cerro La Campana (1880m) in #Chile during his voyage on the Beagle ⚒️
ostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2014/10/01/in-
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August 16, 1906, an #earthquake hit Valparaíso, #Chile, at 19:55 local time. Its epicenter was offshore from the region, and its intensity was estimated at magnitude 8.2. There were 3.882 deaths & the quake left more than 20.000 injured
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_Valp
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August 16, 1869, birthday of American #geologist Mignon Talbot, the first #woman to find and describe a #dinosaur - Podokesaurus holyokensis 🦖
deviantart.com/pelycosaur24/a
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August 15, 1977, the "Wow" signal from deep space was received at "The Big Ear" Ohio State's radio telescope in Delaware.
Its origin remains mysterious to this day, among more fantastic explanations is signal by #ET 📡👽
unexplainedpodcast.com/episodes/2017/
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August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal is opened ⛴🛳 one of the engineering marvels of the world, yet its course was changed by a postage stamp showing a #volcano 🌋Otherwise, it might have been the Nicaragua Canal ...
forbes.com/sites/davidbre
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August 15, 1950, a massive Mw 8.6 #earthquake hits the area of Assam, Tibet. That makes it far bigger than the Mw 7.8 in Nepal in 2015. However, the damage or loss of life, though considerable, was far less as the area was less densely populated
michaelroberts4004.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/ass
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On August 14 1912, a small New Zealand newspaper published a short article announcing global coal usage was affecting our planet's temperature
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August 15, 2008, Lee Berger and his nine-year-old son, Matthew, discover the two-million-year-old fossils of a new species of human ancestor (Australopithecus sediba) at Malapa Cave, South Africa 💀
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australop
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August 14, 1859, birthday of American geologist James Furman Kemp, pioneer of igneous petrology 🌋🪨🤘
speakingofgeoscience.org/2013/08/09/the
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August 14, 1856, died #OTD Victorian theologian & geologist William Buckland. He described the 1st #dinosaur as Megalosaurus in 1824 based on a fragmentary preserved jaw 🦖
Artwork by deviantart.com/pelycosaur24/a
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August 13, 1814, birthday of Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström worked on magnetism and spectography - his name is used for a unit very useful in crystallography 1 Å = 10^−10 m, tiny enough to measure the distance of atoms in crystal structures ⚛️
tinyurl.com/yydrfods
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August 13, 1868, an estimated magnitude 8.5-9 #earthquake hits Arica region in Peru-Chile followed by a tsunami. More than 25.000 victims
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Italian #PieroAngela died aged 93. He was a popular figure hosting various science programs on national television.
For a 1993 documentary he interacted as a "time traveler" with various dinosaurs. The scenes were created with puppets superimposed on filmed landscapes
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August 13, 1625, birthday of Danish physician & mathematician Erasmus Bartholin. Studied the double refraction of light on a strange crystal (known today as Islandspat or Calcite) and published his observations in 1668 💎
youtube.com/watch?v=MoZar-
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American actress #AnneHeche, who played a geologist in the 1997 disaster movie "Volcano ", died aged 53 after a car crash
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano_(
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August 12, 1883, the last known quagga (zebra subspecies) dies at the Artis Magistra Zoo in Amsterdam 🦓
twilightbeasts.org/2015/08/24/see
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August 12, 1977, the space-shuttle "#Enterprise" makes first atmospheric test flight - named after #StarTrek 's famous spaceship exploring the #geology of strange new worlds 🖖
bressan-geoconsult.eu/geological-sta
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August 12, 1807, birthday of Victorian surgeon & naturalist George Busk. Working for the Linnean Society in London, he translated the publications of many important palaeontological discoveries - like the fossils of Neanderthal-man (discovered 1861) 💀
darwinproject.ac.uk/george-busk
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Kamoya Kimeu, Fossil-Hunting ‘Legend’ in East Africa, dies at 84
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August 12, 1990, an almost complete skeleton (90%) of a Tyrannosaurus rex is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in the Hell Creek formation of South Dakota 🎂🦖
fieldmuseum.org/blog/sue-t-rex
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#FossilFriday A 'disgusting and smelly' experiment has transformed scientists' understanding of how spectacular #fossils with delicate soft tissues form
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August 12, 1857, Victorian palaeontologists William Daniel Conybeare died #OTD. He made important contributions on the anatomy of the Ichthyosauri and worked on the geology of the British Islands ⚒️ In 1821, he described the marine reptile Plesiosaurus 🐉
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C
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August 12, 1943, first seismic & volcanic activity is noted that will develop into the most recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius, just in the midst of allied WWII operations in #Italy 🌋
youtube.com/watch?v=1bsmv6
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August 11 (or eventualyl 13), 1772, explosive eruption at Gunung Papandayan volcano, Java, causes a landslide killing 3000 people 🌋
volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn
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August 11, 1992, the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite rocketed into space carrying a radar altimeter to measure sea-surface height. Since then, global mean sea level has risen nearly 10 centimeters and the pace is quickening
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