Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: List of geologists, Bruce C. Heezen, History of geology, Lolo Soetoro, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Manuel Santillan, Clayton W. Williams, Sr., Bernard Amadei, Louis de Loczy, Christopher Andronicos, Alexander du Toit, Arthur Raistrick, Dragutin Gorjanovi -Kramberger, Suren Ayvazyan, Jeffrey C. Wynn, Sigurour orarinsson, David Leaman, Samuel Epstein, Francis Parker Shepard, Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke, Kingsley Charles Dunham, Barclay Kamb, Robert M. Schoch, Andrew Lawson, Teki Bicoku, Emiliano Mutti, Keith Runcorn, Alan H. Coogan, Steve Sparks, Thomas Stanley Westoll, Grover E. Murray, Hartley T. Ferrar, Christopher Packe, Edward Hull, Walter C. Pitman, III, Association of American State Geologists, Ernest St. John Burton, Newton Horace Winchell, Jack Corliss, Donald Canfield, Carl E. Grunsky, Richard Geren, Alan S. Kornacki, Ian Graham Gass, Leslie Reginald Cox, Women in geology, Edward Daniels, John Suppe, Richard Foster Flint, Grygori N. Dolenko, Arthur Newell Strahler, Petroleum geologist, Asher Shadmon, Daniel P. Schrag, Hatten Yoder, Peter John Wyllie, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Rudolf Stahlecker, Nicolae Frolov, Terence Miller, George Doumani, Jon Blundy, Olaf Holtedahl, Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, Ricardo Cirera, Alfred H. Bell, John Hunt, Subimal Sinharoy, Raymond R. Rogers. Excerpt: The history of geology is concerned with the development of the natural science of geology. Geology is the scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the Earth. Throughout the ages geology provides essential theories and data that shape how society conceptualizes the Earth. A mosquito and a fly in this Baltic amber necklace are between 40 and 60 million years old The slightly misshapen octahedral shape of this rough diamond crystal in matrix is typical of the mineral. Its lustrous faces also indicate that this ...