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J. Tuzo Wilson

John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geophysicist who made significant contributions to the theory of plate tecto...

Canadian 20TH Century Historical Plate Tectonics

9.7 Brilliant

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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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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a Norwegian mineralogist and geologist who is widely regarded as the founder of modern geo...

Norwegian 20TH Century Historical Geochemistry

9.5 Brilliant

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Fred Vine

Fred Vine was a British marine geologist and geophysicist who made significant contributions to the modern understanding...

20TH Century Historical British Seafloor Spreading

9.4 Excellent

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George Patrick Leonard Walker

George Patrick Leonard Walker (1926-2005) was a British volcanologist who studied how explosive eruptions produce, trans...

20TH Century British Volcanology Pyroclastic Rocks

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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Norman Bowen

Norman L. Bowen (1887–1956) was a Canadian geologist whose experimental work established the foundational principles of...

Canadian 20TH Century Historical Igneous Petrology

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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Lawrence Morley

Lawrence Morley was a Canadian geophysicist whose 1963 research on marine magnetic anomalies provided foundational evide...

Canadian 20TH Century Historical Seafloor Spreading

9.0 Excellent

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Andrew D. Miall

Andrew D. Miall is a Canadian geologist and sedimentologist whose work focuses on how rivers and other flowing-water sys...

Canadian 21ST Century Sedimentology Basin Analysis

8.7 Great

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Robert Folk

Robert L. Folk was an American sedimentologist and petrologist who taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He devel...

American 20TH Century Historical Sedimentology

8.4 Great

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Raymond Siever

Raymond Siever was an American geologist who spent his academic career at Harvard University as a professor of geology....

American Education 20TH Century Historical

8.3 Great

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Philip Allen

Philip Allen is a British geologist and academic recognized for his extensive contributions to the fields of sedimentolo...

Contemporary Education British Sedimentology

8.3 Great

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Francis Pettijohn

Francis J. Pettijohn was an American sedimentologist and a prominent professor of geology at Johns Hopkins University. H...

American 20TH Century Historical Sedimentology

8.2 Great

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William Krumbein

William Christian Krumbein (1902–1979) was an American geologist who pioneered the application of quantitative and stati...

American 20TH Century Historical Sedimentology

8.2 Great

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Alice E. Wilson

Alice Evelyn Wilson (1881-1964) was a Canadian geologist and paleontologist associated with the Geological Survey of Can...

Canadian 20TH Century Paleontology Ordovician

8.0 Great

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Robert Ehrlich

Robert Ehrlich was an American geologist who applied statistical methods to sedimentary petrology, contributing signific...

American 20TH Century Statistics Sedimentology

7.0 Good

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John Ives

John Ives is a recognized figure in geological and geographical sciences, known for advancing the understanding of regio...

Canadian 20TH Century Arctic Permafrost

6.8 Fair