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coldest temperature recorded

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vostok station antartica 89.2C

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2
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deepest borehole

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kola superdeep borehole russia 12 262

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3
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deepest cave

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krubera cave georgia 7 208

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4
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deepest mine

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mponeng gold mine south africa 4km below

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5
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deepest point in the ocean

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challenger deep pacific 11 032

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driest desert

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atacama desert

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farthest peak from the earth’s center

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mount chimborazo ecuador 6310

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flattest place

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salar de uyuni bolivia 4k

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9
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highest mountain in the solar system

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olympus mons mars 21 287 km

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10
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highest point (altitude)

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mt. everest himalayas 8 484

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11
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highest volcano summit

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nevado ojos del salado south america 6 879

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12
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hottest temperature recorded

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death valley california 56.7C

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13
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largest artificial land

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palm jumeirah UAE 5.72 km^2

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14
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largest basin

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pacific ocean 155 000 000

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15
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largest cave system

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hang song doong vietnam 150 ft deep

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16
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largest desert

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antartic polar desert 14 245 014km

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17
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largest diamond mine

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aikhal mine russia

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18
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largest earthquake

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1960 valdivia earthquake chile m 9.5

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19
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largest gold mine

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grasberg mine indonesia 100km ^2

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20
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largest gold nugget

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welcome stranger 97.14kg

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21
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largest impact crater

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vredefort crater 300km^2

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22
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largest lake by surface area

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caspian sea 371 000km

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23
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largest lake by volume

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lake baikal 23 615.39

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24
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largest meteorite

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hoba meteorite, namibia 2.7m x 2.7m x 0.9 m

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25
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largest non polar desert

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sahara desert 9 065 009

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26
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largest open pit mine

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bingham canyon mine usaa 9km

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27
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largest river by discharge

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amazon river 340 000

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28
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largest rock

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mt. augustus australia 92 km

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29
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largest rough diamond

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cullinan diamond 621.350 g

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30
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largest subaerial landslide

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heart mountain landslide USA 1 036 km

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31
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largest submarine landslide

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storegga slide norway 3500

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32
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largest surviving gold nugget

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pepita canaa nugget 6 082

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33
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largest tsunami

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1958 lituya bay megatsunami 525 m

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34
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longest and most active fault system

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pacific ring of fire 40k km

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35
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longest cave system

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mammoth cave kentucky 640 km

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36
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longest mountain range

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mi atlantic ridge atlantic 16k km

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37
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longest mountain range above sea level

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andes mountain range 7k km

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38
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longest river

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nile river 6 650km

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39
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lowest point on land

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deep sea shore, israel 395m

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40
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most active volcano

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kilauea volcano hawaii

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41
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most massive volcano

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tamu massif pacific 553 000km

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42
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most remote island

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tristan de cunha saint helena 1 743 mi

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43
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smallest island

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bishop rock england

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44
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snowiest place

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paradise washington usa

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45
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tallest mountain

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mauna kea hawaii 10203m from submarine to peak

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46
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wettest place

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mawsynram india 467 in of annual rainfall

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47
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windiest place

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commonwealth bay antartica 150 mph winds

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48
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hypothesized land formation through inland marine fossils soil erosion deposition

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shen kuo

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49
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interpretation of fossils

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theophrastus

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50
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first written work on minerals

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theophrastus

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51
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proposed that metals and gur are made due to the interaction of seeds and water

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thomas sherley

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52
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developed the young’s modulus of elasticity describing the stress strata relationship of materials

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thomas young

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53
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wrote the earliest book on ore deposit

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ulrich rulein von kalbe

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54
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described the inclined seismic zone independently along the kiyoo wadati called wadati benioff zone

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victor hugo benioff

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55
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proposed the planetesimal theory in 1941

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viktor safranov

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56
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published the book mineral deposits and made the lindgreen classification of deposits

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waldemar lindgreen

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57
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formulated the snells lae for the relationship of angle of incidence and angle of reflection

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willebrord snellius

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58
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developed the miller indices

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william hallowes miller

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59
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wrote the earliest publication crystal structure determinations

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william henry bragg

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60
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invented the reflecting goniometer

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william hyde wollaston

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61
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proposed the davisian geomorphology or davis theory

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william morris davis

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62
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developed cycle of erosion model

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william morris davis

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63
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invented the polarizing microscope

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william nicol

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64
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father of stratigraphy
father of english geology
established law of faunal succession

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william smith

65
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coined the term catastrophism and uniformitarianism

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william whewell

66
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developed the bivariate harker diagrams in 1909 for discriminating silicates with major or minor oxide compounds

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alfred harker

67
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named the divisions of pangaea into laurasia and gondwanaland

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alexander du tolt

67
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proposed the model for the earth’s homogeneous accretion

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alfred edward ringwood

68
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proposed neptunism origin of rocks and ore deposits

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abraham werner

68
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along with arthur holmes developed the continental drift theory

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alfred wegener

69
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identified the moho

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andrija mohorivicic

70
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invented the artificial coral reefs

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angel alcala

71
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along with robert wilson first observed the cosmic wave background radiation

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arno penzias

72
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invented the contact goniometer

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amould carangeot

73
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known as the father of geothermal energy development in ph

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arturo alcaraz

74
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along with frascatus and thomas norton believed the rays from heavenly bodies influenced mineralization

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aurelio augurelli

75
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grouped the minerals as stones sulfur minerals metals and salts

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avicenna

76
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known as the founding father of paleontology
proposed the principle of catastrophism
categorized 16 mineral groups as metals stones and earth
along wiht alexander brongniart established the basic principle of buostratigraphy such as the stratigraphic succession of earth layers

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baron georges cuvier

77
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developed chemical classification of minerals along with his students

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baron jons jacob berzelius

78
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proposed that veins are open fissures filled with minerals leached from the adjacents country rock

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carl abraham gerhard

79
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name of guternberg

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beno gutenberg

80
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proposed mohs scale

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carl friedrich christian mohs

81
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pioneer of nuclear studies in the ph

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carlo arcilla

82
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named the ordovician period

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charles lapworth

83
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popularized the principle of uniformitarianism
proposed the law of inclusion in strat
embellished the principle of law cross cutting relationship

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charles lyell

84
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along with udden developed the wentworth udden grade scale

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chester k. wentworth

85
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developed mohr circle

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christian otto mohr

86
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developed weiss parameters to describe crystal faces

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christian samule weiss

87
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justified the big bang theoty by observing the universe expansion

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edwin hubble

88
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proposed the nebular hypothesis

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emanual swedenborg

89
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together with schoenflies and barlov develoepd the foundation of xray crystallography founded on theories on internal symmetry

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evgraf fedorov

90
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introduced the process of gahrung and fauniss or metamorphism and weathering

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fried. wilheim heinrich von trebra

91
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identified six metamorphic zones named after him the barrovian zones

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george barrow

92
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developed airys hypothesis in isostasy

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sir george biddeli airy

93
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first proposed the big bang theory

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george lemaitre

94
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known as the father of economic geology
published de re metallica libri xii the first systematic treatise on mining and smelting

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georgius agricola

95
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developed the wellmas method in measuring the strain in rocks

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harold wellman

96
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developed the theory of seafloor spreading

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harry hess

97
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developed the hjulstom diagram for sediment entrainment transportation and deposition

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henning filip hjulstrom

98
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developed darcyls law in 1856 determine permeability

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henry darcy

99
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along with his wife lou henry hoover published the english translation of de re metallica libri xii in 1912

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herbert hoover

100
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noted the occurrence of gold in quartz veins

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herodotus

101
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developed and published the theory of nebular hypothesis in universal natural history and theory of the heavens in 1755

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immanuel kant

102
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first propsed the idea of the oort cloud in 1950

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jan oort

103
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affirmed stenos work on the crystals angles formulating the law of the consistency of interfacial angles

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jean baptistie louis rome de i laie

104
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along with nicolas desmarest made the first geologic maps
first observed the volcanic origins of some of the parts of france

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jean etienne guettard

105
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believed the golden tree where minerals are thought to be branches from a tree within the earth

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johann gottlob lehmann

106
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dismissed the idea that planets influenced mineralization

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johann joachin becher

107
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developed the pratts theory in isostasy

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john henry pratt

108
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father of ph geology

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jose feliciano

109
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formulated the gibbs phase rule in 1928 to govern the number of phases in equilibrium

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josiah williard gibbs

110
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first animal in space

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laika

111
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established five rules the paulings rules for cation-anion relationships

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linus pauling

112
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initiated the immersion method for optical mineralogy and had the mineral cordierite named after him

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louis cordier

113
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created the first detailed map of the ocean floor

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marie tharp

114
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suggested the idea for xray diffraction

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max von laue

115
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first man to walk on the moon during apollo 11

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neil armstrong

116
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developed the 3 basic principles of strat law of originality law of superposition and law of lateral continuity
first established law of cross cutting

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nicolas steno

117
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identified the lehmann discon

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inge lehmann

118
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observed the early evolution of tetrapods in valentia island

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iwan stossel

119
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father of modern geology
formulated the principle of uniformitarianism
proposed plutonism of origin of rocks
formulated the principle of law of cross cutting relationship
introduced the idea that mineral veins are injected into the fissures they occupy in a molten state

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james hutton

120
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developed the idea of catastrophism

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james usher

121
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father of modern petrology

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norman L. bowen

122
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formulated reynolds number to describe the fluid flow

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osborne reynolds

123
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first predicted cosmic wave background radiation

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ralph asher alpher

124
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handled the 1990 luzon earthquake and the 1991 pinatubo eruption

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raymundo santiago punongbayan

125
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discovered soft bodied impressions of animals during avalon explosion

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reginald claude sprigg

126
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made the first 24 hour weather forecast on aug 1 1861

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robert fitzroy

127
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established the hookes law for elastic relationship of rockes naming in elastic behavior as hooken behavior after him

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robert hooke

128
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developed the dunhams classification in 1962 recognizing four major types of grains or allochems in carbonate rocks

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robert j. dunham

129
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known as father of ph stratigraphy

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rolando pena

130
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established the goldichs rules and series an inverted to bowens series in 1938 for mineral stability

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samuel s. goldich

131
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introduced the idea of magmatic segregration to form minerals

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scipione breisiak

132
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observed crystals to have been built by smaller identical building blocks called integral molecules and developed the theory of rationale indices for crystal faces

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rene j hauy

133
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observed crystals to have been built by smaller identical building blocks called integral molecules and developed the theory of rationale indices for crystal faces

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134
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wind whose direction and speed are determined by a balance of the pressure gradient force and the force due ti the earths rotation

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geostophic winds

135
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low pressure area of the equator the winds are calm here difficult to navigate and trade winds meet other trade winds

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doldrums

136
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long narrow steep sided depression on a plant a moon or another body in the solar system

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chasmata

137
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largest mountain in venus

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maxwell montes

138
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upper part of the soil influenced by plant roots the A horizon and the B horizon

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solum

139
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occur in series down a formerly glaciated valley in small basins scooped out by the glacier as it retreated

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paternoster lake

140
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type of ventifacr with one edged wind abraded facets and two edged and 3 edged

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eikanter
zweikanter
dreikanter

141
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narrow valley with steep rocky walls located between hills or mountains

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gorge

142
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fastest spreading sections of the Earths mid ocean ridge system

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southern stretch of the east pacific rise

143
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scleractiniqn corals first appearance

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triassic

144
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ammonites index fossil of ph in what period?

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jurassic

145
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mammals
birds

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monotreme
aves

146
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first appearanc eof vascular plants

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silurian

147
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also known as dawn of life

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eocene

148
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1st appearanc eof mammoths

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pliocene

149
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first appearance of eohippus

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eocene

150
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caused the closing of tethys sea

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himalayan orogeny

151
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not considered as bed in thickness

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1mm

152
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age of cycads

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triassic

153
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how many moon pluto has

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5

154
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what do you call the variety of colors in a diamond

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fancies

155
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yellow, green, blue, orange, brown color of diamond

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champagne

156
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The first geologic time scale that included absolute dates was published in 1913

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Arthur Holmes

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