Mary Austin Holley (1784–1846)
Mary Austin Holley was a prolific writer and artist. She is largely remembered for her cultural, historical, and geographic accounts […]
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Orra Hitchcock 1796–1863
Ora Hitchcock was an artist, often referred to as America’s first science illustrator, well regarded at the time, but largely
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Elizabeth Gray (1831 – 1924)
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Geological models, How to do things, Interpreting ancient environments
Experiments with turbidity currents – three examples
We tend to forget that, despite the plethora of lithofacies and stratigraphic models of turbidites, submarine channels, and submarine fans,
Geological models, How to do things, Interpreting ancient environments
Experiments with turbidity currents – scaling laws
Physical experiments on natural systems commonly employ scaled models. A guiding principle of model design is to maintain similarity between
Geological models, How to do things, Interpreting ancient environments
Experiments with turbidity currents – some historical context
Experimental modeling of geological processes has a long and distinguished history. Throughout, these experiments were devised to duplicate, at much
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Eliza Maria Gordon Cumming (1795-1842)
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Maria Ogilvie Gordon (1864-1939)
Women naturalists in the 18th and 19th centuries who showed an inclination for geological science were commonly ‘directed’ towards a
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Alice Wilson (1881-1964)
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Madeleine Fritz (1896 -1990)
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