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GSA History of Geology Division - http://gsahist.org/
Web site includes organization information, as well as several papers on important geologists and their work. |
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HESS: History of the Earth Sciences Society - http://historyearthscience.org/
International society devoted to the history of earth sciences. Site has information about the organization and its journal, Earth Sciences History. |
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Bartleby.com: Sir Charles Lyell - http://www.bartleby.com/people/Lyell-Si.html
Includes etexts of scientific papers, "The Progress of Geology" and "Uniformity of Change". |
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The Great Devonian Controversy - http://www.friesian.com/rudwick.htm
A review of the book by Martin Rudwick about this 19th century geological controversy. |
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No Stone Unturned: The First 150 years of the Geological Survey of Canada - http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/hist/150_e.php
Describes the approval of the geological survey department, which was originally created to find coal ore and later for map making. Page describes the later success in finding other sources of minerals. Local animal and plants species were also recorded. |