History of Geology Newsletter

January 11, 1638, birthday of pioneer of stratigraphy Nicolas Steno

January 11, 1771, a landslide in the Italian Dolomites dams up a river

January 10, 1794, died on this day German naturalist Georg Forster

January 6, 1912, Alfred Wegener Goes Public

Alfred Wegener goes public with his theory on “The Origin of Continents and Oceans.”