Geikie

Balfour learned a lot about the countryside from senior academic pal Archibald Geikie, who was as nuts about geology as was Balfour about botany.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Geikie also wrote the biography of his mentor, the arrogant, self-opinionated, and aggressively irascible Sir Roderick Impey Murchison.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Geikie also wrote the biography of his mentor, the arrogant, self-opinionated, and aggressively irascible Sir Roderick Impey Murchison.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Geikie did the classic thing: picking up fossils as a kid and becoming an obsessive rockhound thereafter.

American Connections James Burke 2007

This flow of water, Geikie thinks, probably circulates to some extent below every glacier, and he accounts for it by the liquefaction of ice from the warmth of the underlying soil.

Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit 2007

Balfour learned a lot about the countryside from senior academic pal Archibald Geikie, who was as nuts about geology as was Balfour about botany.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Through such tempestuous theoretical waters, Croll kept a steady course, negotiating between cosmic and terrestrial physics on the one hand (as exemplified by Herschel and Lord Kelvin) and geology on the other, as practiced by Lyell, Darwin, and the Geikie brothers.

James Croll and the astronomical theory of climate change 2007

Windjana, Tunnel Creek, and Geikie Gorges support abundant bat colonies in extensive cave systems and are rich in Devonian reef fossils.

Kimberly tropical savanna 2007

Geikie did the classic thing: picking up fossils as a kid and becoming an obsessive rockhound thereafter.

American Connections James Burke 2007

In the state of running water below the glacier, it might readily, as Geikie states, absorb heat from the underlying soil sufficient to retain its liquid form, as the overlying weight gradually lessened at the edge of the glacier.

Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit 2007