swap_horiz Clarence Dutton Alternatives

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Norman L. Bowen

Norman L. Bowen was a Canadian geologist whose work fundamentally advanced our understanding of igneous rock formation....

Canada Experimental Historical Igneous Petrology

9.2 Excellent

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Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz was a Swiss-born American geologist whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of Earth’s history....

Switzerland USA Historical Paleontology

9.0 Excellent

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J. Harlen Bretz

J. Harlen Bretz was a prominent American geologist known for his groundbreaking work investigating the formation of the...

USA Historical Geomorphology Catastrophism

9.0 Excellent

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Grove Karl Gilbert

Grove Karl Gilbert (1839-1912) was an American geologist instrumental in developing geomorphology and understanding land...

Survey USA Historical Geomorphology

8.9 Great

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William Morris Davis

William Morris Davis (1850-1934) was a prominent American geologist and geographer known for his systematic study of lan...

USA Geography Historical Geomorphology

8.9 Great

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Reginald Aldworth Daly

Canadian geologist Reginald Aldworth Daly introduced the theory of magmatic stoping and proposed an impact origin for lu...

Canada Historical Harvard Igneous Petrology

8.8 Great

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Roderick Murchison

Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison defined and named the Silurian geological period in the 1830s, significantly advan...

Survey Scotland Historical Stratigraphy

8.7 Great

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Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden

American geologist Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden led the 1871 geological survey of the Yellowstone region that was instrume...

Survey USA Historical Yellowstone

8.5 Great

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Konrad B. Krauskopf

Konrad B. Krauskopf was an American geochemist and geologist at Stanford University who made significant contributions t...

USA Historical Geochemistry Igneous Petrology

8.5 Great

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Thomas Jaggar

Thomas Jaggar was an American volcanologist who founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in 1912, advancing the global s...

USA Hawaii Historical Seismology

8.4 Great

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Florence Bascom

Florence Bascom was an American geologist who became the second woman to earn a geology Ph.D. in the United States and s...

USA Crystallography Historical Petrology

8.4 Great

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Preston Cloud

American paleontologist and geologist Preston Cloud extensively studied the Precambrian biosphere and the role of early...

USA Historical Paleontology Precambrian

8.3 Great

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Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin was an American geologist who founded the Journal of Geology in 1893 and co-authored the plan...

Academic USA Historical Glaciology

8.3 Great

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Francis J. Pettijohn

Francis J. Pettijohn was an influential American sedimentologist who significantly advanced the understanding of sedimen...

Academic USA Historical Sedimentology

8.3 Great

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Andrew Lawson

Canadian-American geologist Andrew Lawson led the investigative commission following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake a...

USA Canada Historical Structural Geology

8.2 Great

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Bailey Willis

Bailey Willis was an American geological engineer who mapped the Appalachian Mountains and led a 1906 expedition to map...

USA Historical Seismology Structural Geology

8.1 Great

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Amadeus William Grabau

Amadeus William Grabau was an American geologist and paleontologist known as the father of Chinese geology for his exten...

USA China Historical Paleontology

7.8 Good

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David A. Johnston

David A. Johnston was an American volcanologist who died during the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens while...

Modern Survey USA Volcanology

7.8 Good

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Joseph Barrell

Joseph Barrell was an influential American geologist who proposed the concepts of the lithosphere and asthenosphere in 1...

USA Historical Stratigraphy Geomorphology

7.6 Good

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William H. Twenhofel

William H. Twenhofel (1875–1945) was an American geologist whose 1926 Treatise on Sedimentation established foundational...

USA Historical Stratigraphy Sedimentology

7.4 Good