It truly is a plesiosaur-eat-pterosaur (& everybody-eat-everybody-else) world, with a worried-loking turtle, in Elements of Geology, by Samuel St. John (1851) #paleoart #fossilfriday #bookhistory
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This 1901 BAAS meeting had a strong programme of geology, & John Horne, President of the Geology Section, gave an excellent summary of progress in Scottish geology. It was at this meeting that the NW Highlands controversy was really laid to rest, a triumph for Nicol, Lapworth & Peach & Horne.
Richard Fallon@richardfallon.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's extremely neat that the scientific volumes prepared for the British Association for the Advancement of Science's 1901 Glasgow meeting had covers in the ultra-cool Glasgow Style. Just stumbled across this, so I don't know which artist is responsible.
Here he notes the granite rock forming the summit - an original sample from that day is now hosted in the @TEYLERS Museum, Netherlands. Photo by @HOGGroup ...
After retirement from India R.D. Oldham lived in Kew with his sister, spending summers in the south of France, where he studied the geomorphological history of the Rhone delta. His latter years were spent at the Gawlia Hotel, Llandrindod Wells & in France. He died 15 July 1936 in the Welsh spa town.
History of Geology@historyofgeology.bsky.social · 5d agoRichard Dixon Oldham was born in India on July 31, 1858, to a British family. His father was a professor of geology studying at the time Himalayan earthquakes. Richard himself later joined the Geological Survey of India ...
July 31, 2023, died on this day aged 87 American geophysicist W. Jason Morgan. In the 1960s he helped to develop the modern theory of plate tectonics ...
HOGG members visited The Lapworth Museum 29/07/26 when we viewed & discussed a range of historical objects in the archive behind the scenes. The Museum is uniquely valuable in holding artefacts & documents charting the work & life of the geologist it is named after, Charles Lapworth (1842–1920).
Lapworth Museum of Geology@lapworthmuseum.bsky.social · 7d agoIt has been 10 years since the Museum re-opened following a re-development and expansion. We are grateful for the support of everyone who has visited the Museum in the last 10 years. What is your favourite memory of the Museum? Tag us and use the hashtag #10YearsofLapworth. #LapworthRocks
This was fabulous. So interesting. You can watch it on Youtube www.youtube.com/live/RIbdjhI...
Public Lecture - Mineral and Earth Pigments in Art and Architecture
YouTube video by The Geological Society
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Dr Susan Newell@sue-newell.bsky.social · 2w agoThank you Dr Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social @geolsoc.bsky.social for a wonderful presentation on mineral and earth pigments combining Earth science history and art history so brilliantly @hoggroup.bsky.social
While attention at Sotheby's in New York today was focused on the sale of a dinosaur, someone picked up Henry De la Beche's wonderful 1830 anti-Lyellian lithograph, Awful Changes, with Professor Ichthyosaurus lecturing to a class of fellow saurians for just $5,000 hammer, so about £4,800 with fees.
Out now! The Summer 2026 issue of the Museum's Magazine, free to Museum members & subscribers of Apple News+ & Readly. Featuring articles on the creation of the #NaturalHistoryMuseum, by Karolyn Shindler, & tales of the Abominable snowman from the #Archives, by Assistant Archivist, Rebecca Keddie.
John Phillips marked this landslip on the 5th edition of his 'New Index Geological Map of the British Isles', published in 1840, such was its fame amongst geologists & public alike, & it continued to be marked on Phillips' maps up to the 11th edition in 1862.
University of Exeter Special Collections@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 3w agoThis colour plate shows rock formations on the East Devon coast caused by landslips between December 1839 & February 1840. Corn grew on the rocks that had fallen from the fields above, attracting fascinated visitors. 📷 Reserve 554.235 DAW/XX (1840) #InternationalRockDay #Geology #RareBooks #Devon
John Phillips marked this landslip on the 5th edition of his 'New Index Geological Map of the British Isles', published in 1840, such was its fame amongs geologists and public alike, and it continued to be marked on Phillips' maps up to the 11th edition in 1862.
University of Exeter Special Collections@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 3w agoThis colour plate shows rock formations on the East Devon coast caused by landslips between December 1839 & February 1840. Corn grew on the rocks that had fallen from the fields above, attracting fascinated visitors. 📷 Reserve 554.235 DAW/XX (1840) #InternationalRockDay #Geology #RareBooks #Devon
A curious feature of Mary Anning's sparse notes on her 1829 visit to Charlotte Murchison in London is that part way through a sentence describing what they did on Saturday 11th July, Mary's writing gives way to that of Charlotte who goes on to describe their visit to church on Sunday 12th.
3 July 1824: a meeting of two icons of early 19th century geology, Mary Anning and Charles Lyell who called at her shop in Lyme Regis. He saw a large ichthyosaur which she had found 2 weeks earlier and was preparing, 'her cleaning the specimen a great instance of skill & knowledge of Osteology'.
And we hope you paid homage to EB Bailey, C.T.Clough & H.B. Maufe who, 120 years ago, mapped the Gelocoe geology & recognised as a downfaulted block within an oval ring fault representing a collapsed caldera - the first detailed analysis of an eroded subaerial caldera. zenodo.org/records/2346...
Alisa Bokulich@alisabokulich.bsky.social · last mo.So disappointed that our tour to Staffa/Fingal's Cave was canceled today 😭 but still enjoyed wandering around Glencoe. ⚒️🏴
So disappointed that our tour to Staffa/Fingal's Cave was canceled today 😭 but still enjoyed wandering around Glencoe. ⚒️🏴
First stop on geology tour: an import spot in the history of science en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schieha... #HPS ⚒️
Lovely! Not seen these before, but one has clear Duria antiquior and Thomas Hawkins' Sea Dragons roots, even though the plesiosaur? seems to have wings! And I love the expression of the beast to the right of what looks like an ichthyosaur. @tetzoo.bsky.social - you familiar with these?
VictorianLondon@victorianlondon.bsky.social · last mo.perils of the deep
June 23, 1750, birthday of French mineralogist Diedonnè-Silvain-Guy-Tancrede de Gvalet de Dolomieu ...
23 June 1814: At a meeting of @royalsociety.org Sir Everard Home of @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social reads his paper on a fossil discovered between Lyme Regis and Charmouth by Mary Anning and her brother several years earlier. Home thought it was some kind of fish, but not 'wholly a fish'.
19 June 1828: newspapers carry a report from Lyme Regis, noting several ichthyosaurs in Mary Anning's shop, her discovery of a large ammonite and some coprolitic news. She often featured in newspaper reports, written probably by her friend George Roberts who seems to have handled her PR.
Smith's debt was to John Conolly who had invested in & loaned cash for Smith's Kingham Stone Quarry venture, near Tucking Mill. It was this that ruined him & not his map directly. Ironically the stone proved defective; cambering & rock fracture extended wider than Smith had anticipated- see sketch.
History of Geology@historyofgeology.bsky.social · 2mo ago"The man and his fossils can be imprisoned, but not his idea." June 11, 1819, William Smith is arrested and imprisoned in King´s Bench prison, London. Publishing his large-scale geological maps & investments in costly projects ruined him & he didn't pay back money he had borrowed ...
I admire a certain perverse need some people have to reiterate that the @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social are not accurate by the standards of current (or 1970s) science, no matter the context.
10 June 1835: WJ Broderip reads his paper on some Lias fossils from Lyme Regis at a meeting of the Geological Society. Amongst those he describes is a new genus and species of fossil lobster, Coleia antiqua, illustrated by two specimens found by Mary Anning.
“At about 25,500 feet I came upon a limestone band which to my joy contained fossils – the first definite forms found on Everest!” June 6, 1924, mountaineer and geologist Noel Ewart Odell is searching for fossils during the British expedition trying to reach the summit of Mount Everest ...
5 June 1832: Oxford geologist William Buckland writes to Joseph Anning, who was involved in the family fossil business, about fossils he'd bought, telling him that some fossil sepia & coprolites can wait until 'your sister comes home'. Mary was away from Lyme Regis, probably collecting in Somerset.
On June 5, 1799, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and botanist Aimé Bonpland set sail aboard the Pizarro from the harbor of Coruña in Spain, beginning a five-year expedition that covered more than 9.600 kilometers (6,000 miles) across South America, Mexico, and the United States ...
June 4, 1889, birthday of German-American geophysicist & seismologist Beno Gutenberg. Born in Darmstadt, he studied there meterology first, but after attending a course on how to use geophysical instruments he changed to physics in Göttingen ...
3 June 1726, Edinburgh: birth of geologist James Hutton, not looking a day over 50 in this picture in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery painted by a young artist called Henry Raeburn who went on to make a bit of a name for himself as a portrait painter.
James Hutton was born #OTD 300 years ago. His seminal work 'Theory of the Earth' (1798) made popular by his friend John Playfair's 'Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory' (1802) sparked a debate on geological processes, on the formation of strata and about (geological) time. 1/2
