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Strata: The Remarkable Life Story of William Smith, the Father of English Geology – John L Morton

Strata: The Remarkable Life Story of William Smith, the Father of English Geology – John L Morton

William Smith was the first man to realise that rock strata extended right across the country – that fossils found in Dorset were the same as those in Yorkshire because the rocks were of the same age. In 1797, he drew up a list of twenty-eight rock strata beneath the...
King of Siluria: How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology – John L Morton

King of Siluria: How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology – John L Morton

From joining The Geological Society in 1825, Roderick Impey Murchison became its President only seven years later! He went about his investigation of older rocks in Wales and Eastern Europe with boundless energy and was the first to differentiate and name the...
Strata: The Remarkable Life Story of William Smith, the Father of English Geology – John L Morton

Strata: The Remarkable Life Story of William Smith, the Father of English Geology – John L Morton

William Smith was the first man to realise that rock strata extended right across the country – that fossils found in Dorset were the same as those in Yorkshire because the rocks were of the same age. In 1797, he drew up a list of twenty-eight rock strata beneath the...
King of Siluria: How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology – John L Morton

King of Siluria: How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology – John L Morton

From joining The Geological Society in 1825, Roderick Impey Murchison became its President only seven years later! He went about his investigation of older rocks in Wales and Eastern Europe with boundless energy and was the first to differentiate and name the...
Strata: The Remarkable Life Story of William Smith, the Father of English Geology – John L Morton

Strata: The Remarkable Life Story of William Smith, the Father of English Geology – John L Morton

William Smith was the first man to realise that rock strata extended right across the country – that fossils found in Dorset were the same as those in Yorkshire because the rocks were of the same age. In 1797, he drew up a list of twenty-eight rock strata beneath the...
King of Siluria: How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology – John L Morton

King of Siluria: How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology – John L Morton

From joining The Geological Society in 1825, Roderick Impey Murchison became its President only seven years later! He went about his investigation of older rocks in Wales and Eastern Europe with boundless energy and was the first to differentiate and name the...

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  • - Field Meeting: Malvern Rocks: geology in a Victorian health resort
  • Apr 2022 - A.C. Ramsay: insights into mid-19th century geology from his papers
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  • Nov 2021 - The ‘Discovery’ of the Silurian: following in the footsteps of Murchison.
  • Jul 2021 - Geological drugs and prophylactics – discovering how knowledge of geology was used in the past to prevent disease and protect against ailments
  • Oct 2021 - The history of petroleum exploration: evolving technologies based on a handful of underlying principles.
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