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Geologists On E2

This is the Geologists Metanode, an index of writeups about geologists (including: geologists, mineralogists, seismologists, palaeontologists, planetologists, etc.) on E2. This is a subnode of the top-level Scientists node, and is a collaborative effort by the usergroup E2science. To suggest additions or alterations, please /msg liveforever or E2_Science.

• Edward D. Cope
  Vertebrate paleontologist who described many famous dinosaur types. His long, bitted competition with O. C. Marsh for dinosaur finds is legendary.
• James Hutton
  
• John Lapworth
  Described the Ordovician system.
• Charles Lyell
  
• Othniel C. Marsh
  Director of Yale University's Peabody Museum, who paid Cope's workers to send fossil finds to him instead of Cope.
• Roderick Impey Murchison
  Described the Devonian and Silurian systems. He had his own legendary feud, with Adam Sedgwick over the chronological order of Paleozoic rocks in England and Wales.
• Charles F. Richter
  Devised the Richter scale, for measuring comparative magnitude of earthquakes.
• Adam Sedgwick
  Described the Cambrian system.
• Janez Vajkard Valvasor
  A Slovenian naturalist, who made the first studies of karst development.
• Alfred Wegener
  Father of the theory of continental drift.