swap_horiz W.G. Ernst 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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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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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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Maurice Ewing

Maurice Ewing was an American geophysicist and oceanographer who founded the Lamont Geological Observatory at Columbia U...

American 20TH Century Historical Geophysics

9.1 Excellent

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John Imbrie

John Imbrie was an American paleoceanographer who significantly advanced the understanding of Earth's climate history. H...

American 20TH Century Historical Paleoclimatology

9.1 Excellent

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Pentti Eskola

Pentti Eskola (1883–1964) was a Finnish geologist and professor at the University of Helsinki. He introduced the concept...

20TH Century Historical Finnish Metamorphic Petrology

9.1 Excellent

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Walter Pitman

Walter Pitman was an American geophysicist and marine geologist whose research at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty G...

American 20TH Century Seafloor Spreading Paleomagnetism

9.1 Excellent

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Susan Werner Kieffer

Susan Werner Kieffer is an American geologist and geophysicist whose work examines the fluid dynamics of explosive volca...

American 20TH Century Geophysics Impact Craters

9.1 Excellent

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Robert Dietz

Robert Dietz (1914–1995) was an American geologist and oceanographer recognized for his contributions to marine geology...

American 20TH Century Historical Seafloor Spreading

9.0 Excellent

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Stanley R. Hart

Stanley R. Hart is an American geochemist whose research uses isotope systems to study the chemical evolution of Earth's...

American 20TH Century Geochemistry Isotope Geochemistry

9.0 Excellent

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Warren Hamilton

Warren Hamilton was an influential American geologist whose foundational research significantly advanced the global unde...

American 20TH Century Historical Tectonics

8.5 Great

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E-an Zen

E-an Zen (1928–2014) was a Taiwanese-American geologist who served as a senior research geologist with the United States...

American 20TH Century Historical Usgs

8.5 Great

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Jay Ague

Jay Ague is an American geologist who currently serves as a professor of geology at Yale University. His academic resear...

American Contemporary Subduction Metamorphic Petrology

8.5 Great