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July 20, 1969, Apollo11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to geologize on the lunar surface, discovering that the Moon is not made from cheese but mostly basalt ...

July 19, 1985, two basins used to store mining waste in the Val di Stava, Italy, collapse causing a mudflow killing 268 people. The disaster was a result of sloppy engineering & ignoring safety margins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaLT...

July 18, 1997, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American geologist and one of the pioneers in the field of planetary & impact geology, is killed in a car accident during a field trip in Australia ...

July 17, 1959, Mary Leakey's team discovers the first fossil of Paranthropus boisei (today Australopithecus boisei) in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania 💀 🇹🇿 leakeyfoundation.org/the-discover...

July 17, 2009, #American broadcast & journalist Walter Cronkite died #OTD in New York aged 92. Famous for his reporting of the trials in Nüremberg after WWII and the Moon landing, he covered also #dinosaurs 🦖 ...

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July 15, 1799, a rock slab is discovered in a wall of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta). It will help to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs 𓂀 At first believed to be basalt it is actually a granodiorite from Aswan

July 15, 1888, Bandaisan (Mount Bandai) #volcano in #Japan erupts for first time in 1000 years - the catastrophic eruption produces pyroclastic flows and triggers a landslide killing 461 people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1888_er...

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Happy birthday Sir Patrick Stewart 🎂 In his role as Captain Picard in "#StarTrek - The Next Generation (or short TNG) he shows some interests in collecting rocks, crystals and even fossils 💎🖖 www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/geological-s...

July 13, 1923, the expedition led by American explorer (and real-life Indiana Jones) Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first (unequivocally) dinosaur nests in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia 🦖🥚🥚 historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2011/06/roy-...

New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known for his role as grumpy-charismatic paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park films, has died aged 78 www.bbc.com/news/live/cr...

July 10, 1925, the trial against geologist & high school science teacher John T. Scopes, arrested for teaching human evolution in one of Tennessee's public schools, begins 🐵🙈🙉

July 9, 1958, an earthquake and rockfall into Lituya Bay, Alaska, triggers a 600 to 1,700 ft (518 meters) high wave, the tallest wave ever observed & survived by humans ...

July 9, 2015, died on this day American biologist David Raup. He applied mathematical methods to the field of paleontology, using statistics to better understand extinction events.

On July 8, 1985, after over 800 years of documented activity, the mines of the Schneeberg (the "Snowy Mountain") n the Tyrolean Alps were officially closed ⚒️ ...

HMS Beagle with on board amateur geologist Charles Darwin arrived at the volcanic island of St Helena on July 8, 1836, where it stayed until afternoon of July 14, afterwards proceeding its journey back to Great Britain 🌋

July 7, 1883, birthday of Austrian geologist Albrecht Spitz. His geologic sections of the Engadin Dolomites (Switzerland-Austria-Italy) shows tectonic nappes and thrust faults - a novelty at the time when most structures in the Alps were interpreted as folded layers ⛰️ ...

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July 5, 1829, first Russian diamonds discovered near Promysla in the District of Perm Krai 💎 Alexander von Humboldt predicted this discovery based on his research on mineral lagerstätten 💎 ...