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Ødegården Verk

Tellef Dahll was known for his work in geological surveying and standing as Stortinget member for Bratsberg (now Telemark), and he was later made a knight in both the Order of St. Olav and the Order of the Polar Star.

Stephen Powers

His articles were first published over a series of years in the Overland Monthly journal, but collected in The Tribes of California (1877), published by the US Geological Survey.

Vincent Ellis McKelvey

It took on primary responsibility for operational research in seismology and geomagnetism by agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and 10 units of NOAA were transferred to the Geological Survey.

Woodstock Iron Works

While there were suggestions that settlers around the Woodstock area had recognized iron deposits in the surrounding landscape in approximately 1820, it was not until sixteen years later in 1836 that Dr. Jackson of Boston, who was on a geological survey conducted by the state of Maine, confirmed the presence of iron ore.


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2008 Lincolnshire earthquake

The British Geological Survey gave the earthquake a reading of 5.2bMb.

Abiathar Peak

The peak was named by members of the 1885 Hague Geological Survey to honor Charles Abiathar White, a geologist and paleontologist who had participated in early western geological surveys.

Baddeleyite

Concluding the various analyses, Teall and Pringle decided to name the new mineral Geikielite, taking the name after the Director General of the Geological Survey, Sir Archibald Geikie.

Blanford's Fringe-fingered Lizard

Named after William Thomas Blanford (1832 - 1905), member of the Geological Survey of India.

Blanford's rock agama

Blanford's rock agama (Psammophilus blanfordanus) is an agamid lizard found in Peninsular India and is named after William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905), member of the Geological Survey of India.

Dean, Montana

Dean appears on the Beehive U.S. Geological Survey Map and shares a postal ZIP code with Nye (59061).

Dun Mountain Railway

Because the new manager, Joseph Cock, had yet to arrive in Nelson, a geological survey of the mines was conducted on 1 June 1864 by Dr James Hector, an assayer working for the Otago Provincial Government.

Edward John Dunn

Dunn was appointed director of the geological survey of Victoria in 1904, and in 1905 was awarded the Murchison Medal by the Geological Society of London.

Eric W. Mountjoy

Mountjoy, E.W., Windth, J., Price, R.A., and Douglas, R.J.W., (2001): George Creek, 83 C10, Geology and structure cross-section, Alberta, Geological Survey of Canada.

Geikie Gorge National Park

The gorge was named in honour of Sir Archibald Geikie, the Director General of Geological Survey for Great Britain and Ireland when it was given its European name in 1883.

Geological Survey of Western Australia

The Geological Survey of Western Australia is an authority within the Department of Mines and Petroleum of the Government of Western Australia that is responsible for surveying and exploration of Western Australia's geological resources.

Halse Hall

The property belonged to Henry De la Beche who stayed there during 1823–24, while he made his geological survey of Jamaica.

Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation

JOGMEC's Geological Remote Satellite Sensing Centre in Lobatse, Botswana was created in partnership with the southern African nation's Department of Geological Survey in July 2008.

Josiah Whitney

He was appointed state chemist and professor in the Iowa State University in 1855, and together with James Hall, he issued reports on Iowa's geological survey (1858-1859).

Mount Chittenden

The peak was named by Henry Gannett of the Hayden Geological Survey of 1878 for George B. Chittenden.

Pierre Jean Édouard Desor

After spending a few years in the north of Europe, especially in Scandinavia, investigating the erratic phenomena peculiar to that region, Desor accompanied Agassiz in 1847 to the United States, found employment in the coast survey, and made with Whitney, Foster, and Rogers a geological survey of the mineral district of Lake Superior.

Reischek's Parakeet

The common name commemorates pioneering naturalist and collector Andreas Reischek, who collected specimens of the parrot in 1888 and who named it Platycercus hochstetteri for the son of his friend, Austrian geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter, who made a geological survey of New Zealand.

Robert Hirsch

Robert M. Hirsch, American hydrologist, works for the U.S. Geological Survey

Rykel de Bruyne

He worked for the "National Institute for Fisheries Research" (Rijks Instituut voor Visserij Onderzoek, RIVO) at the Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies, the former "Geological Survey" (Rijks Geologische Dienst), the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie) and the Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI) in Amsterdam.

Tatlayoko Lake

A few years later, George Dawson surveyed the geology of the area, and his 1878 report to the Geological Survey of Canada used the spelling Tatlayoco.

Warington Wilkinson Smyth

One son, Herbert Warington Smyth, was also a mining engineer, a traveller, and a Geological Survey adviser to the government of Siam.

Xsyon

Xsyon is set in a apocalyptic fantasy environment, closely modeled on the real world area of Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe which spans the California and Nevada border, west of Carson City using US Geological Survey data.

Yorkshire Geological Society

From the late 19th century onwards the Society developed ever-closer links with the emerging earth science departments in the university colleges and universities of Yorkshire and adjacent counties and with the Geological Survey, particularly at its former Leeds and Newcastle offices, and these close links remain today with the British Geological Survey's headquarters at Keyworth, Nottinghamshire.