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  1. 10 hours ago

    November 15, 1835, HMS Beagle with onboard Charles reaches Tahiti, where he will formulate his ideas about "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs" 🏝⛵

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  2. 13 hours ago

    November 15, 1864, the first US mining school opens in the basement of Columbia University, NY ⚒️

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  3. Nov 14

    Fault scarp photo, also known as Wall of Waiau, by Kate Pedley

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  4. Nov 14

    November 14, 1889, birthday of Elizabeth Cochran, known under her pseudonym Nellie Bly as American author & journalist. Inspired by Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days" she successfully traveled around in 72 days

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  5. Nov 14

    contributed to the collapse of dynasties in in the last 2,000 years by temporarily cooling the and affecting agriculture 🌋

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  6. Nov 14

    The November 14, 1959 eruption of Iki crater at the summit of Kīlauea volcano lasted until December and created a lava pit & a series of lava fountains 🌋

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  7. Nov 14

    November 14, 1797, birthday 🎂 of Charles Lyell, pioneer of modern with his textbooks ⚒️ & buddy to the other famous named Charles (Darwin)

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  8. Nov 14

    November 14, 1963, a new volcanic island emerges from the sea off the south coast of Iceland - Surtsey, named so after a fire-giant of local mythology🌋

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  9. Nov 14

    Kaikoura beach before and after New Zealand's magnitude 7.8 of November 14, 2016, showing an uplift of 2 to 5 m & fault scarp at the Waiau section

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  10. Nov 13

    November 13, 1985, a series of lahars triggered by a minor eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia kill 22.000 people

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  11. Nov 13

    November 13, 1897, birthday of pioneering German-American paleontologist Tilly Edinger, first to reconstruct a nervous system of a fossil vertebrate 🐟🧠

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  12. Nov 12

    November 12, 1999, the Düzce-Kaynaşlı (Turkey) causes about 35-45 km long surface faulting between the Efteni Lake and the Bolu viaducts and displaced the ground by 2 to 4.5 meters 📷 by

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  13. Nov 12

    November 14, 1914, "Gertie the Dinosaurus" released, the 1st animated featuring a - the complete film was 13 minutes long. American cartoonist Winsor McCay even planned a sequel 🦕🎥

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  14. Nov 12

    new 📚 Juan Benito & Roc Olivé: Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide (coming summer 2022)

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  15. Nov 12

    November 12, 1912, British explorer Robert Scott's diary & body were found in . The collected by the expedition in the last days will later provide evidence for continental drift

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  16. Nov 12

    November 14, 1969, an Earth-Eclipse photographed by astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad during the 12 mission 🌞🌍

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    November 12, 1896, Irene Crespin, an Australian geologist and micropalaeontologist specialized in foraminifers, was born

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  18. Nov 11

    November 11, 1922, the Mw 8.5 Vallenar hits the Atacama Region of Chile-Argentina. The quake was followed by a & caused extensive damage & thousands of victims

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  19. Nov 11

    November 11, 1994, Bill buys Leonardo da 's "Codex Leicester " for 31 million US$. These personal notes of da Vinci contain also a section of 🌍

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  20. Nov 11

    November 11, 1988, the discovery of the at the time oldest known insect - 390-million-year-old - from Canada is reported in the journal . Insect fossils found in more recent years date well beyond 400 millions 🐜

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