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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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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, 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 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 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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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, 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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Kamoya Kimeu, Fossil-Hunting ‘Legend’ in East Africa, dies at 84
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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, 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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