EESA06H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Lageos, Seafloor Spreading, John Tuzo Wilson
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1678: 1st european sees niagara george by roman catholic priests. 1795: james hutton father of geology published theory of the earth . His foundations of rocks being constantly transforming and recycling were used for charles lyell uniformitarianism. 1846: robert mallet father of seismology proposed earthquakes are generated by movements. Energy is transmitted from a center point through the ground in waves. Great neapolitan quake in 1857 provided opportunity to investigate seismic wave"s effects. Antonio snider pelligrini found plant fossils in europe and america deduced that plans can"t disperse across oceans that the continents were once connected. Also made a map that fits the americas, europe, and africa, to a single continent. Lord kevin studied thermodynamics (named for the unit kelvin. Also modeled earth as a ball of molten magma and based his calculations on the rate at which a ball would cool to have current geothermal gradient helped determine the re-calculating of earth"s age.
