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Galileo Makes First Telescope
Obviously, faced criticism by the Catholic church and was called to Rome a few times to explain his Copernicus Theory. -
Mediterranean Sea Used For Dating
Edmund Halley uses the salinity and evaporation in the Mediterranean sea to determine the age of the earth. -
Hutton Challenges the Theory of Catastrophism
Hutton found evidence of the earth developing its characteristics over a long period of time. -
"Theory Of Earth"
Paper published by James Hutton. -
New Dinosaur Bones Discovered
This genus was named in 1824, by William Buckland, Megalosaurus bucklandii. -
Dinosaur Models Begin Production
the first dinosaur models (life size and made of concrete) were made by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins of England. -
Leon Teisserenc de Bort discovers that the atmosphere consists of layers.
He used balloons with instruments attached to them and discovered (after many balloon experiments/trials) that the atmosphere is made up of different layers with different temperatures (stratosphere and troposphere was discovered). -
Earth's Core Inspected
Discovery of Earth’s core by seismologist Richard Oldham found that waves move slower through the center of the earth than they do the mantle; thus, the earth’s core is made of a liquid. -
Pole Reversal!
Pole (Magnetic Field) Reversal concept is introduced by Bernard Brunhes. His paleomagnetic study of clay baked by a Miocene lava flow 13 million years ago provides the evidence. It is nearly 50 years before his discovery is accepted by the scientific community -
Seismic Moment
Keiiti Aki discovers the seismic moment -
MIT
Physicist Luis Alvarez, geologist Walter Alvarez, and others propose that the impact of a large extraterrestrial object caused the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period (65 mya)
