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Obviously, faced criticism by the Catholic church and was called to Rome a few times to explain his Copernicus Theory.
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Edmund Halley uses the salinity and evaporation in the Mediterranean sea to determine the age of the earth.
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Hutton found evidence of the earth developing its characteristics over a long period of time.
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Paper published by James Hutton.
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This genus was named in 1824, by William Buckland, Megalosaurus bucklandii.
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the first dinosaur models (life size and made of concrete) were made by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins of England.
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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).
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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.
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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
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Keiiti Aki discovers the seismic moment
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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)
