1. Famous Geologists Blue Hernandez Bryson Avenue Elementary Magnet School Mrs. Flores -4 th Grade September 2009

2. What does a geologist do? A geologist is a scientist that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in the composition, structure, and origin of rocks.

3. Famous Geologist James Hutton Mary Anning Andrew Lawson Friedrich Mohs Alfred Wegener

4. James Hutton (1726-1797) He is the father of modern geology. He did careful observations of rocks and how it tells of the earth. He believed that rocks form from fire. The rocks tell of the earth’s history “The present is the key to the past.”

5. The greatest fossilist the world ever knew. She was the only women in England that looked for fossil. She taught herself how to explore for fossils. She found many dinosaur skeletons and gave them to museums.

6. Famous geology professor of UC Berkeley. Important reporter for the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. He discovered the San Andreas Fault. It is a tectonic plate line that runs north and south through California.

7. He created the Mohs Hardness Scale to test unknown minerals against the 10 standard minerals. 1 Talc 2 Gypsum 3 Calcite 4 Flourite 5 Apatite 6 Feldspar 7 Quartz 8 Topaz 9 Ruby 10 Diamond

8. He identified the Super Continent, which is, that long ago all the continents fit like a puzzle but slowly drifted into the world we know today. Pangaea (green land) Panthalassa (ocean)

9. Wegener’s Theory Wegener discovered fossils on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. He identified that the mountains ranges of some continents continued on other continents. He noticed the close fit between Africa and South America.

10. 1 Super Continent to 7 Continents

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