Geology Collection (page 13)

Lake geology, 1678. Artist: Athanasius Kircher
Lake geology, 1678. A print from Mundus subterraneus, by Athanasius Kircher, Amsterdam, 1678. Kircher?s Mundus Subterraneus marks the first serious effort to describe the physical makeup of the earth

Temple of Serapis at Puzzuoli in 1183, Charles Lyell (1853). Artist: Charles Lyell
Temple of Serapis at Puzzuoli in 1183, Charles Lyell (1853). Frontispiece of the ninth edition of Principles of Geology, Charles Lyell, London, 1853, showing how it had slowly subsided

Strata of red sandstone, slightly inclined, Siccar Point, Berwickshire 1852. Artist: Charles Lyell
Strata of red sandstone, slightly inclined, Siccar Point, Berwickshire 1852. It is illustrating nonconformable strata, and so long time scale

Lulworth Cove Looking West to Dungy Head, Dorset, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Lulworth Cove Looking West to Dungy Head, Dorset, 20th century. Dungy Head is a coastal promontory west of Lulworth Cove on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England

Lulworth Cove from NNE. Purbeck, Dorset, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Lulworth Cove from NNE. Purbeck, Dorset, 20th century. Lulworth cove, on the Jurassic Coast of England, is a World Heritage Site

James Hutton, Scottish geologist, 18th century, (1875). Hutton (1726-1797) first published his Theory of the Earth in 1785, then an expanded version in 1795

Luigi Palmieri, Italian geophysicist, 1893. Palmieri (1807-1896) was director of the Vesuvius Observatory which monitored the activity of the volcano. In 1855 he invented a seismograph

Isaac Lea, American publisher, geologist and conchologist, 1896. Lea (1792-1886), whose field of scientific expertise was research into freshwater molluscs

Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist, 1833. Jameson (1774-1854) was Regis professor of natural history at Edinburgh from 1804-1854

Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Murchison (1792-1871) investigated old rocks beneath the red sandstone

Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish-born British geologist, c1860. Murchison (1792-1871) investigated old rocks beneath the red sandstone

Georgius Agricola, 16th century German physician, mineralogist and metallurgist. Agricola (christened Georg Bauer) (1494-1555) was the author of De re metallica

Triceratops, a horned dinosaur, held down by a Tyrannosaur, c1920. Artists reconstruction of a fight between two giant reptiles of the Cretaceous epoch (99, 000, 000-65, 000, 000 years ago)

Skeleton of Megatherium, extinct giant ground sloth, 1823. Megatherium was a prehistoric herbivore that lived in South America. This specimen was found in Paraguay in c1796

Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus), 1892. An extinct genus of elephant from the Pleistocene epoch (2, 500, 000 to 10, 000 years ago) found in fossil deposits and in northern Europe as 30

Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus) skeleton, 1830. An extinct genus of elephant from the Pleistocene epoch (2, 500, 000 to 10, 000 years ago) found in fossil deposits and in northern Europe as 30

Reconstruction of the Irish elk (Megaloceros), c1880. Megaloceros is an extinct genus of the Pleistocene epoch (2, 500, 000 to 10, 000 years ago) found as fossils in Asia and Europe

Dream Lead Mine, near Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 1881. Sectional view showing the workings and the position in which a skeleton of a rhinoceros was discovered

Discovery of iguanodon fossils, Bernissart, Belgium, 1878 (c1880). 39 skeletons of the herbivorous dinosaur were discovered in a coal mine by Jules Creteur and his workmates

Fossil hunting in Cherry Hinton chalk pit, Cambridgeshire, 1822. One of the quarry workers is handing a find, an ammonite perhaps, to a gentleman collector

James Hutton, Scottish geologist, 1787 (1877). Hutton (1726-1797) working at a rock face with a geological hammer. In 1794 he published his Theory of the Earth

Satellite photograph of Great Namaland, Namibia, 1972. Photographed by Landsat 1. The satellites multispectral scanner reveals lithologic and structural features with clarity

Death Valley, California, USA, 1982-1993. First full scene from the Thematic Mapper on Landsat 4. The vegetation-sparse terrain is dominated by landforms and other geological features

Theory of Continental Drift, 1922. Diagram from an article by Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) on his theory of Continental Drift, published in Discovery, London, 1922

Diagram of the Earth during the Carboniferous period, 1922. Land is represented by the unshaded areas, deep sea by the areas shaded with diagonal lines and shallow water with horizontal lines

Eruption of Shirane-san and earthquake at Edo (Tokyo), Japan, 1650. After an engraving published in Amsterdam, 1669

Sectional view of the Earth, showing central fire and volcanoes, 1665. From Mundus Subterraneous by Athanasius Kircher

Ideal Jurassic landscape in America, 1884. Artist: Othniel Charles Marsh
Ideal Jurassic landscape in America, 1884. From fossil evidence, Othniel Marsh imagined a scene during the late Jurassic epoch 163 to 161 million years ago, with Stegosaurus

A Sawrian, 1836. Artist: John Scott
A Sawrian, 1836. Cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a saurian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex, in 1820

Ferdinand Fouque, French geologist and petrologist, 1904. Fouque (1828-1904) worked on the Geological Survey of France. He made a particular study of volcanoes and earthquakes

John Stevens Henslow, English botanist, geologist and clergyman, 1861. Henslow (1796-1861) was professor of mineralogy (1822-1827) and of botany (1827-1861) at Cambridge

Gideon Algernon Mantell, English geologist, 1852. In 1820 Mantell (1790-1852) discovered fossil parts of the Iguanodon and deduced from its teeth that it was a herbivore

Geological map of the moon, 1967. This map is based largely on photographs taken by the US Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft. Launched on 4 May 1967

Vesuvius erupting, Italy, c1815. Vesuvius during one of its early 19th century eruptions. People observing the eruption from inside the volcanos cone which is emitting smoke and flames

Eruption of Vesuvius, Italy, c1815. Vesuvius during one of its early 19th century eruptions viewed from the Bay of Naples. In the centre foreground fishermen are using a flare to attract their prey

Paleolithic Quartz Flake Tool from Olduvai, 1 to 2 million years old

Skull of Australopithecus Africanus from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 3 to 2 million years BC. Australopithecus africanus is an extinct (fossil) species of the australopithecines

Fossil of Archaeopteryx Lithographica. Late Jurassic, (20th century). HV Meyer. Odeter Jura (Malm) Eichstatt, Bavaria

Neanderthal Woman: Reconstruction at British Museum, National History, c20th century
Neanderthal Woman, Reconstruction at British Museum, National History, c20th century

Neanderthal Man. Reconstruction of head, c20th century

Mt Olympus, Greece, c20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Mt Olympus, Greece, c20th century. Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece, located in the Olympus Range on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia

Mt Olympus, Greece, View to West from main summit, c20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Mt Olympus, Greece, View to West from main summit, c20th century. Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece, located in the Olympus Range on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia

Mt Olympus, Greece, main summit (9570 feet, 2914 metres), Stephani, Throne of Zeus, c20th century Artist: CM Dixon
Mt Olympus, Greece, main summit (9570 feet, 2914 metres), Stephani, Throne of Zeus, c20th century. Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece

Fossil. Crinoid Lily, Ordovician to Pleistocene period, c450 million-10, 000 BC

Mt Olympus, Greece, View of main summit, (9570 feet), Stephani, the Throne of Zeus, c20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Mt Olympus, Greece, View of main summit, (9570 feet), Stephani, the Throne of Zeus, c20th century. Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece

Upper Borrowdale valley in October, Lake District, Cumbria, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Upper Borrowdale valley in October, Lake District, Cumbria, 20th century. Borrowdale lies within the historic county boundaries of Cumberland

Chalk Cliffs and Lighthouse at Beachy Head, Sussex, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Chalk Cliffs and Lighthouse at Beachy Head, Sussex, 20th century. Chalk headland in East Sussex, England formed in the Late Cretaceous, between 66 and 100 million years ago

The Agglestone on Godlingstone Heath, Dorset, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
The Agglestone on Godlingstone Heath, Dorset, 20th century. Agglestone Rock, also known as the Devils Anvil, is a tertiary sandstone block of about 400 tonnes weight

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