Dr Laurie’s Earth Science Blog

Alfred Wegener gained fame as the person who came up with the idea of Continental Drift, a key part of the Plate Tectonics theory;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener

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Steno was particularly important for early thinking on palaeontology and stratigraphy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Steno

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Famous for making important discoveries about the internal structure of the Earth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija_Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87

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Mercalli developed a scale for measuring the impact of earthquakes, which now bears his name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Mercalli

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Harry Hess gained fame in geology for his theory of seafloor spreading, which forms an important part of the plate tectonicstheory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hammond_Hess

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James Dana was particularly important in the fields of volcanology and mineralogy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dwight_Dana

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One half of the Peach & Horne team who did key early work on the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, unravelling its complex geological history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horne

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Together with John Horne, Ben Peach was instrumental in unravelling the structurl history of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, a triumph of its time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Peach

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Lapworth created the Ordovician period by developing important palaeontological techniques involving graptolites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lapworth

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