History of Geology

"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside l...

Caricatures are exaggerated sketches of a person or human behavior. However, such cartoons appear only at a superficial glance as simple dr...

Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs, lithography by Joseph Kriehuber (1832). Talc – Gypsum – Calcite – Fluorite – Apatite – Feldspar – Quar...

“ There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just “are” – t...

The nuclear fire above Hiroshima in the early morning of August 6, 1945, not only vaporized parts of the city but also created new minerals...

The Scottish Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon (1864-1939), or May as she was called, was the oldest daughter of a pastoral family composed of...

The first purported photo of Nessie was published in The Daily Mail" on April 21, 1934.  The image, taken by a London surgeon named ...