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    Eduard Suess (German: [ˈeːduaʁt zyːs]; 20 August 1831 – 26 April 1914) was an Austrian geologist and an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible...
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    boundaries trending east to west, first noticed by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, suggests that once many plates were one plate, and the collision formed...
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  • American hockey player Eduard Suess (1831–1914), an Austrian geologist Mount Suess, a mountain in Antarctica named for the geologist Suess (lunar crater), named...
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  • Hans Eduard Suess (December 16, 1909 – September 20, 1993) was an Austrian-born American physical chemist and nuclear physicist. He was a grandson of the...
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    impacts. The term was coined by Austrian geologist Franz Eduard Suess (1867–1941), son of Eduard Suess. They generally range in size from millimetres to centimetres...
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  • expanded even more in the early 20th century. Major contributions included: Eduard Suess’ and Vladimir Vernadsky's work with the biosphere, Arthur Tansley's ecosystem...
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    from the Caribbean to the Himalayas. In 1893, the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess proposed the hypothesis that an ancient and extinct inland sea had once...
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    Siberian Lowland. Angaraland was named in the 1880s by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess who erroneously believed that in the Paleozoic Era there were two large...
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  • surface, rather than them having "changed places" with the continents. Eduard Suess had proposed a supercontinent Gondwana in 1885 and the Tethys Ocean in...
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    Republic), from where the first described pieces came. In 1900, Franz Eduard Suess pointed out that the gravel-size moldavites exhibited curious pittings...
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    Austrian geologist, born in Vienna, son of Moritz Hoernes. He studied under Eduard Suess and became a Professor of geology in Graz. He was known for his earthquake...
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    x+96 pp. 2009 Globale Geologie und ihr Einfluss auf das Denken von Eduard Suess Der Katastrophismus Uniformitarianismus-Streit: Scripta Geo-Historica...
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    1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess's 1875 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force...
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    Texas. Pellegrini was preceded by Abraham Ortelius and followed by Eduard Suess, Roberto Mantovani, Frank Bursley Taylor, and Alfred Wegener as early...
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    for Scotland. The term was first used in 1885 by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess for an episode of mountain building in northern Europe that predated...
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    divisions of Earth's interior (with these names) were first proposed by Eduard Suess in the 19th century. This model of the outer layers of Earth has been...
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    "mass" or "heap" and was first used in the geological sense in 1883 by Eduard Suess in The Face of the Earth. Horsts may have either symmetrical or asymmetrical...
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    solar activity with a period of about 210 years. It was named after Hans Eduard Suess and Hessel de Vries. Despite calculated radioisotope production rates...
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  • technosphere. The term "anthroposphere" was first coined by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess in 1862. The anthroposphere can be viewed as a human-generated equivalent...
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    developed the geosyncline concept, and introduced it to Europe in 1900. Eduard Suess, a leading geologist of his time, disapproved the concept of geosyncline...
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    from the German term Schildvulkan, coined by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess in 1888 and which had been calqued into English by 1910. Shield volcanoes...
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    English in 1887, translating the German term hydrosphäre, introduced by Eduard Suess. The water cycle refers to the transfer of water from one state or reservoir...
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  • asteroid was named after Austrian geologist Franz Eduard Suess, following a suggestion by Herbert Raab. Suess is a member of the Eos family (606), the largest...
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    planets or moons. The term "biosphere" was coined in 1875 by geologist Eduard Suess, who defined it as the place on Earth's surface where life dwells. While...
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    shrinking Earth caused by its gradual cooling. In the late 19th Century, Eduard Suess proposed his eustatic theory that provided the underpinnings for Chamberlin's...
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    present day. The continent of Gondwana was named by the Austrian scientist Eduard Suess, after the region in central India of the same name, which is derived...
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    entomologist), Ludwig Förster (an architect) and August Zang (a publisher). Eduard Suess (a geologist) was appointed to replace Förster upon the latter's death...
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    distribution of Glossopteris across several, now detached, landmasses led Eduard Suess, amongst others, to propose that the southern continents were once amalgamated...
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    Society for this, and a third volume was published posthumously, edited by Eduard Suess, with a biography. He died in Vienna from appendicitis and according...
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    English sportsman and the father of modern football (d. 1924) August 20 – Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist (d. 1914) August 28 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady...
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