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Archibald Geikie

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Sir Archibald Geikie (28 December 183510 November 1924), was a Scottish geologist and writer. [1]

88 relations: Alfred Harker, Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas, Baddeleyite, Barra Head, Barra Head Lighthouse, Ben Peach, British Science Association, Classical Association, Cymru Terrane, Dalradian, Danggu Gorge National Park, Dál Riata, Dippy (London), Dorsa Geikie, Edward Forbes, Francis Grant Ogilvie, Geikia, Geikie, Geikie Glacier, Geikie Gorge, Geikie Inlet, Geikie Ridge, Geikielite, Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, Geological Society of Glasgow, Geological Society of London, Geology of Scotland, George Alexander Gibson, George Panton, Glarus thrust, Harvard Classics, Hayden Memorial Geological Award, Henry Cadell, Henry Drummond (evangelist), Henry Witham, James Croll, James Geikie, James Stuart Geikie, Jean-Étienne Guettard, John Horne, John Murray (oceanographer), John Sheldon (anatomist), Joseph Thomson (explorer), Knockan Crag National Nature Reserve, List of Fellows of the Royal Society G, H, I, List of geologists, List of lunar features, List of Makdougall Brisbane Prize winners, List of members of the Order of Merit, List of Presidents of the Geological Society of London, ..., List of presidents of the Royal Society, List of Scottish place names in other countries, List of University of Edinburgh people, Livingstone Medal, Lyman Hall (academic), Matthew Forster Heddle, Maxim Antonovich, Murchison Medal, Naturales quaestiones, Neocomian, Nicolas Desmarest, North Atlantic Igneous Province, North West Highlands Geopark, November 1924, Occult or Exact Science?, Peter Coats, Peter Lesley, Peter Newcome, Puy, Rede Lecture, Robert Scott Mylne, Romanes Lecture, Thomas Henry Huxley, Thrust fault, Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (before 1954), University of Edinburgh, Warington Wilkinson Smyth, William Abbott Herdman, William Aitcheson Haswell, William Lowthian Green, William Nicol (geologist), Wollaston Medal, 1835, 1835 in Scotland, 1891 Birthday Honours, 1895 in science, 1914 New Year Honours, 1924. Expand index (38 more) »

Alfred Harker

Alfred Harker FRS (19 February 1859 – 28 July 1939) was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography.

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Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas

Sir Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas (3 June 1857 – 28 December 1937) was a New Zealand university professor, geologist, biologist and educationalist.

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Baddeleyite

Baddeleyite is a rare zirconium oxide mineral (ZrO2 or zirconia), occurring in a variety of monoclinic prismatic crystal forms.

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Barra Head

Barra Head, also known as Berneray (Scottish Gaelic: Beàrnaraigh), is the southernmost of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

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Barra Head Lighthouse

Barra Head Lighthouse on Barra Head identifies the southern entrance to The Minch, roughly halfway between the Eilean Glas and Rinns of Islay lighthouses.

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Ben Peach

Benjamin Neeve Peach, FRS FRSE FGS LLD (6 September 1842 – 29 January 1926) was a British geologist.

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British Science Association

The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.

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Classical Association

The Classical Association is a British learned society in the field of classics, and a registered charity.

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Cymru Terrane

The Cymru Terrane is one of five inferred fault bounded terranes that make up the basement rocks of the southern United Kingdom.

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Dalradian

Dalradian in geology describes a series of metamorphic rocks, typically developed in the high ground which lies southeast of the Great Glen of Scotland.

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Danggu Gorge National Park

Danggu (Geikie) Gorge National Park is a national park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, (great circle distance) northeast of Perth and approximately east of Broome by road.

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Dál Riata

Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada) was a Gaelic overkingdom that included parts of western Scotland and northeastern Ireland, on each side of the North Channel.

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Dippy (London)

Dippy is a plaster cast replica of the fossilised bones of the type specimen of Diplodocus carnegii.

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Dorsa Geikie

Dorsa Geikie is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Fecunditatis on the Moon.

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Edward Forbes

Professor Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) was a Manx naturalist.

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Francis Grant Ogilvie

Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie CB FRSE (8 August 1858 – 14 December 1930) was a Scottish educator, museum director, and scientist.

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Geikia

Geikia is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsids from the late Permian.

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Geikie

Geikie is a surname.

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Geikie Glacier

Geikie Glacier is a glacier which flows northeast to Mercer Bay, at the southwest end of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia.

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Geikie Gorge

Geikie Gorge (known locally as Darngku) is a feature of the Napier Range and is located within the grounds of Geikie Gorge National Park, from Fitzroy Crossing, northeast of Perth and east of Broome in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia.

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Geikie Inlet

Geikie Inlet is an inlet along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, formed between the cliffs of the Drygalski Ice Tongue on the north and Lamplugh Island and the seaward extension of Clarke Glacier on the south.

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Geikie Ridge

Geikie Ridge is a massive mountain ridge, long and wide, forming the divide between Dugdale Glacier and Murray Glacier in the Admiralty Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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Geikielite

Geikielite is a magnesium titanium oxide mineral with formula: MgTiO3.

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Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands

Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle is a book written by the English naturalist Charles Darwin.

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Geological Society of Glasgow

The Geological Society of Glasgow is a scientific society devoted to the study of geology in Scotland.

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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Geology of Scotland

The geology of Scotland is unusually varied for a country of its size, with a large number of differing geological features.

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George Alexander Gibson

Dr George Alexander Gibson FRSE FRCPE LLD (27 January 1854 – 18 January 1913) was a Scottish physician, medical author and amateur geologist.

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George Panton

George A. Panton FRSE (d. 1902) was a 19th century British botanist.

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Glarus thrust

The Glarus thrust (Glarner Überschiebung) is a major thrust fault in the Alps of eastern Switzerland.

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Harvard Classics

The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr.

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Hayden Memorial Geological Award

The Hayden Memorial Geological Award is presented by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (formerly the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Henry Cadell

Dr Henry Moubray Cadell of Grange, DL FRSE LLD (1860 – 1934) was a Scottish geologist and geographer, noted for his work on the Moine Thrust, the oil-shale fields of West Lothian, and his experiments in mountain building published in 1888.

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Henry Drummond (evangelist)

Rev Prof Henry Drummond FRSE LLD FGS (17 August 1851 – 11 March 1897) was a Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer.

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Henry Witham

Henry Thomas Maire Silvertop Witham (1779–1844) was an early researcher into the internal structure of fossil plants.

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James Croll

James Croll, FRS, (2 January 1821 – 15 December 1890) was a 19th-century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change based on changes in the Earth's orbit.

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James Geikie

James Murdoch Geikie PRSE FRS LLD (23 August 1839 – 1 March 1915) was a Scottish geologist.

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James Stuart Geikie

James Stuart Geikie (c.1812 – Ormiston, 1884) was a Scottish wig-maker and perfumer remembered as an amateur musician and composer, and as father of two eminent geologists, James and Archibald Geikie.

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Jean-Étienne Guettard

Jean-Étienne Guettard (22 September 1715 – 7 January 1786), French naturalist and mineralogist, was born at Étampes, near Paris.

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John Horne

John Horne PRSE FRS FRSE FEGS LLD (1 January 1848 – 30 May 1928) was a Scottish geologist.

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John Murray (oceanographer)

Sir John Murray KCB FRS FRSE FRSGS (3 March 1841 – 16 March 1914) was a pioneering British oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist.

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John Sheldon (anatomist)

John Sheldon (6 July 1752 – 8 October 1808) was an English surgeon and anatomist.

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Joseph Thomson (explorer)

Joseph Thomson (14 February 1858 – 2 August 1895) was a Scottish geologist and explorer who played an important part in the Scramble for Africa.

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Knockan Crag National Nature Reserve

Knockan Crag National Nature Reserve lies within the North West Highlands Geopark in the Ross-Shire and Sutherland border area of Scotland north of Ullapool.

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List of Fellows of the Royal Society G, H, I

About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.

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List of geologists

A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology.

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List of lunar features

Several features cover the surface of the Moon.

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List of Makdougall Brisbane Prize winners

This is a list of winners of the Makdougall Brisbane Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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List of members of the Order of Merit

Below is a list of Members of the Order of Merit from the order's creation in 1902 until the present day.

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List of Presidents of the Geological Society of London

This is a list of the Presidents of the Geological Society of London.

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List of presidents of the Royal Society

The President of the Royal Society (PRS) is the elected Head of the Royal Society of London who presides over meetings of the society's council.

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List of Scottish place names in other countries

This page is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to other parts of the world by Scottish emigrants or explorers, or contain distinctive Scottish surnames as an element.

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List of University of Edinburgh people

List of University of Edinburgh people is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staffs, and university officials of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

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Livingstone Medal

The Livingstone Medal is awarded by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in recognition of outstanding public service in which geography has played an important part.

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Lyman Hall (academic)

Lyman Hall (February 18, 1859 – August 16, 1905) was a professor and president of the Georgia School of Technology (now called the Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech).

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Matthew Forster Heddle

Matthew Forster Heddle FRSE (28 April 1828 – 19 November 1897) was Scottish physician and amateur mineralogist active through the 19th century.

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Maxim Antonovich

Maxim Alexeyevich Antonovich (Макси́м Алексе́евич Антоно́вич, 9 May 1835, – 14 November 1918) was a Russian literary critic, essayist, memoirist, translator and philosopher.

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Murchison Medal

The Murchison Medal is an academic award established by Roderick Murchison, who died in 1871.

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Naturales quaestiones

Naturales quaestiones is a Latin work of natural philosophy written by Seneca around 65 AD.

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Neocomian

In geology, Neocomian was a name given to the lowest stage of the Cretaceous system.

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Nicolas Desmarest

Nicolas Desmarest (16 September 1725 – 20 September 1815) was a French geologist and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'', in particular, the multi-volume Géographie-physique.

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North Atlantic Igneous Province

The North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP) is a large igneous province in the North Atlantic, centered on Iceland.

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North West Highlands Geopark

The North West Highlands Geopark is a geopark in the Scottish Highlands.

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November 1924

The following events occurred in November 1924.

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Occult or Exact Science?

"Occult or Exact Science?" is an article published in two parts, in April and May 1886, in the theosophical magazine The Theosophist; it was compiled by Helena Blavatsky.

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Peter Coats

Sir Peter Coats of Auchendrane FRSE DL (1808-1890) was a Scottish thread manufacturer and philanthropist of note.

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Peter Lesley

Joseph Peter Lesley (17 September 1819 – 1 June 1903) was an American geologist.

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Peter Newcome

Peter Newcome (1715–1779) was an English educator and Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Puy

Puy is a geological term used locally in the Auvergne, France for a volcanic hill.

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Rede Lecture

The Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer is an annual appointment to give a public lecture, the Sir Robert Rede's Lecture (usually Rede Lecture) at the University of Cambridge.

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Robert Scott Mylne

Rev Robert Scott Mylne FRSE FSSA FSA BCL (2 April 1854 – 23 November 1920) was an English vicar, antiquarian and historical author.

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Romanes Lecture

The Romanes Lecture is a prestigious free public lecture given annually at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy.

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Thrust fault

A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.

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Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (before 1954)

The evolution of tectonophysics is closely linked to the history of the continental drift and plate tectonics hypotheses.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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Warington Wilkinson Smyth

Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth (26 August 1817 – 19 June 1890) was a British geologist.

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William Abbott Herdman

Sir William Abbott Herdman FRS FRSE FLS (5 September 1858, Edinburgh – 21 July 1924) was a Scottish marine zoologist and oceanographer.

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William Aitcheson Haswell

William Aitcheson Haswell (5 August 1854 – 24 January 1925) was a Scottish-Australian zoologist specialising in crustaceans, winner of the 1915 Clarke Medal.

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William Lowthian Green

William Lowthian Green (13 September 1819 – 7 December 1890) was an English adventurer and merchant who later became cabinet minister in the Kingdom of Hawaii.

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William Nicol (geologist)

Dr William Nicol FRSE FCS (18 April 1770 – 2 September 1851) was a Scottish geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828.

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Wollaston Medal

The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.

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1835

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1835 in Scotland

Events from the year 1835 in Scotland.

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1891 Birthday Honours

The 1891 Birthday Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire.

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1895 in science

The year 1895 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1914 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1914 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire.

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1924

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Geikie

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