I. Personalities Flashcards

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Discovered the crust-mantle boundary (Moho Discontinuity)

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Andrija Mohorovicic

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2
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Discovered the Gutenberg Discontinuity

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Beno Gutenberg

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3
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Discovered Earth’s solid inner core inside a liquid outer core

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Inge Lehmann

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4
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Proposed the existence of transform plate boundaries

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J. Tuzo Wilson

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5
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Proposed the magnetic striping on the seafloor

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Fred Vine and Drummond Matthews

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6
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Developed the theory of seafloor spreading in 1968

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Harry Hess and Robert Dietz

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7
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Proposed the theory of continental drift in the 1900s

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Alfred Wegener

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8
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Created a model fitting South America and Africa together

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Sir Edward Bullard

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9
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Developed the Richter Scale in 1935

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Charles Richter

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10
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Developed the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale

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Giuseppe Mercalli

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11
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Father of geothermal energy in the Philippines

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Arturo Alcaraz

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12
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Father of Philippine geology

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Jose Ma. Feliciano

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13
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Directed PHIVOLCS (1984-2002), oversaw the 1990 Luzon earthquake & 1991 Pinatubo eruption

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Raymundo Punongbayan

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14
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Directed PHIVOLCS (2003-2017)

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Renato Solidum

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15
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Proposed the Big Bang Theory

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Georges Lemaitre

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16
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Father of modern geology, wrote ‘Theory of the Earth’ (1795)

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James Hutton

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17
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Led a pioneering exploration of the Grand Canyon

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John Wesley Powell

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18
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Proposed the principle of fossil/faunal succession

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William Smith

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19
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Developed radiocarbon dating

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William Libby

20
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Demonstrated spontaneous formation of organic compounds

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Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

21
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Father of modern petrology

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Norman Levy Bowen

22
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Coined the name ‘geochemistry’ in 1838

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Christian Friedrich Schonbein

23
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Father of Geochemistry

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Frank W. Clark

24
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Father of Modern Geochemistry

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Victor M. Goldschmidt

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Developed the periodic table of elements
Dmitri Mendeleev
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Helped establish BC and AD in time
St. Augustine of Hippo
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Deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in October 23, 4004 BC
James Ussher
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Proposed a catastrophic theory where a comet pulled material from the Sun
Georges Louis de Buffon
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Estimated Earth's age as 90-100 million years using ocean salinity
John Joly
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Proposed principles of superposition, original horizontality, and lateral continuity
Nicolas Steno
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Developed the theory of Neptunism
Abraham Gottlob Werner
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Father of comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology
Baron Georges Cuvier
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Co-founded Uniformitarianism
Charles Lyell
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Estimated Earth's age using thermodynamics
Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)
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Proposed Walther’s Law
Johannes Walther
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Coined the term 'Ordovician'
Charles Lapworth
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Coined the term 'Cambrian' and 'Devonian' (with Murchison)
Adam Sedgwick
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Coined the term 'Silurian', 'Devonian' (with Sedgwick), and 'Permian'
Roderick Murchison
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Coined the term 'Quaternary'
Jules Desnoyers
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Coined the term 'Cretaceous'
Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy
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Coined the term 'Triassic'
Friedrich August von Alberti
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Coined the term 'Jurassic'
Alexander von Humboldt
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Father of Italian Geology, coined 'Tertiary'
Giovanni Arduino
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First to reach the summit of Mt. Everest (May 29, 1953)
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
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First Filipino to climb Mount Everest (May 15, 2006)
Dale Abenojar
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Pioneers of marine geophysics
Edward Bullard and Maurice Ewing
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Father of GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
Roger Tomlinson