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Born October 2, 1858 • Stockholm • Sweden
Died July 23, 1943 (aged 84) • Sweden
Subjects Of Study geochronology • varve analysis
Steno, Nicolaus
Nicolaus Steno
Danish geologist
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William Lonsdale
British geologist
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Giovanni Arduino
Italian geologist
Lindgren, Waldemar
Waldemar Lindgren
American geologist
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Alfred Elis Törnebohm
Swedish geologist
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
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William Maclure
American geologist
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François-Emile Matthes
American geologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Dorothy Hill
Dorothy Hill
Australian geologist
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American paleontologist
Grove Karl Gilbert, 1891
Grove Karl Gilbert
American geologist

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