swap_horiz Amos Eaton Alternatives

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Harry Hess

Harry Hammond Hess (1906–1969) was an American geologist and a professor at Princeton University. He served as an office...

American 20TH Century Historical Plate Tectonics

9.5 Brilliant

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James Dwight Dana

James Dwight Dana (1813-1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist who made significant contributions...

American 19TH Century Historical Mineralogy

9.4 Excellent

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William Maurice Ewing

William Maurice Ewing (1906-1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer whose research helped establish modern...

American 20TH Century Oceanography Seismic Refraction

9.4 Excellent

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John Suppe

John Suppe is an American structural geologist whose work focuses on the deformation of the Earth’s crust, especially th...

American 20TH Century Structural Geology Fault Bend Folding

9.4 Excellent

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J. John Sepkoski Jr.

J. John Sepkoski Jr. (1948-1999) was an American paleontologist whose research used large fossil databases to study the...

American 20TH Century Extinction Paleontology

9.4 Excellent

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John Ostrom

John Ostrom (1928–2005) was an American paleontologist whose work fundamentally altered modern paleontology and evolutio...

American 20TH Century Historical Theropods

9.3 Excellent

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Charles Richter

Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist who spent most of his career at the California Instit...

American 20TH Century Historical Seismology

9.3 Excellent

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Harlen Bretz

Harlen Bretz was an American geologist whose fieldwork in the early 20th century led to a radical theory about the forma...

American 20TH Century Historical Geomorphology

9.3 Excellent

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Don Anderson

Don L. Anderson was an American geophysicist and seismologist who served as a professor at the California Institute of T...

American 20TH Century Historical Geophysics

9.2 Excellent

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René Just Haüy

René Just Haüy (1743–1822) was a French mineralogist whose work laid the foundation for modern crystallography. He disco...

18TH Century French Crystallography Historical

9.2 Excellent

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Robert L. Folk

Robert L. Folk was an American geologist and sedimentary petrologist whose work gave geologists practical systems for cl...

American 20TH Century Sedimentology Carbonate Petrography

9.2 Excellent

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James Burleigh Thompson Jr.

James Burleigh Thompson Jr. was an American geologist whose research helped shape modern metamorphic petrology, the stud...

American 20TH Century Metamorphic Petrology Phase Petrology

9.2 Excellent

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William Maclure

William Maclure was a Scottish-American geologist and scientific patron whose 1809 publication included the first geolog...

18TH Century Geology Scottish American First Us Geologic Map

8.3 Great

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William Barton Rogers

William Barton Rogers (1804-1882) was an American geologist, physicist, and educator. He taught at the College of Willia...

American Geology 19TH Century Mit Founder

8.2 Great

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Benjamin Silliman

Benjamin Silliman was an American chemist and geologist associated with Yale College and with the early professional dev...

18TH Century American Mineralogy Founder Ajscience

8.2 Great

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Scipione Breislak

Scipione Breislak (1748–1826) was an Italian geologist and Catholic priest recognized for his contributions to volcanolo...

18TH Century Italian Geology Historical

7.5 Good

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Donald Hyndman

Donald Hyndman is an American geologist and academic who co-founded the Roadside Geology book series alongside David Alt...

American Contemporary Education Geology

7.2 Good

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David Alt

David Alt was an American geologist, university professor, and author associated with the University of Montana in Misso...

American Contemporary Geology Pacific Northwest

6.8 Fair

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Alexander Winchell

Alexander Winchell was an American geologist and educator who lived from 1824 to 1891. He taught at the University of Mi...

American Geology 19TH Century Paleontology

6.4 Fair

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Ebenezer Dana

Ebenezer Dana is recognized within the historical archives of American geology, sharing a foundational legacy with other...

18TH Century American Crystallography Historical

3.6 Poor