
July 18, 1635: Robert Hooke - The Last Virtuoso of Silly Science
My name is David Bressan and I'm a freelance geologist working mainly in the Austroalpine crystalline rocks and the South Alpine Palaeozoic and Mesozoic cover-sediments in the Eastern Alps. I graduated with a project on Rock Glaciers dynamics and hydrology, this phase left a special interest for quaternary deposits and modern glacial environments. During my research on glaciers, studying old maps, photography and reports on the former extent of these features, I became interested in history, especially the development of geomorphologic and geological concepts by naturalists and geologists. Living in one of the key area for the history of geology, I combine field trips with the historic research done in these regions, accompanied by historic maps and depictions. I discuss broadly also general geological concepts, especially in glaciology, seismology, volcanology, palaeontology and the relationship of society and geology.

July 18, 1635: Robert Hooke - The Last Virtuoso of Silly Science

8, July 1836: Darwin on St Helena and the Birth of a Volcano

The Earth-shattering Loch Ness Monster that wasn't

June 24, 1982: "The Jakarta Incident"

Accretionary Wedge #57: I see (dead) Geologists

June 8, 1783: How the "Laki-eruptions" changed History

May 12, 1931: Alfred Wegener's last Journey

A Geologist s Dream: The Lost Continent of Lemuria

Cowboys, Dinosaurs & Evolution - A tribute to Ray Harryhausen

May 1, 1851: The First Dinomania (and Dinosaur Nightmares)

Mother Earth

Geologists in the land of the Kangaroo: The first (and forgotten) geological Exploration of Australia

In Search of the Sea Snake

Citizen Science: Are you brave enough to venture to Earth s Core?

March 30, 1759: The Four Layers of Earth

March 23, 1769: William Smith - Pioneer of Applied Geology

Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon: Pioneer Geologist of the Dolomites

Down the Rabbit Hole

Dinosaur-Mail: Postal Service, Prehistoric Pop-Art & Plagiarism

Darwin's Tree and Deep Time

Mass Extinctions and Meteorite Impacts

Geologizing with Darwin

Geomorphologic Groundhog Day

Men among prediluvian Beasts