ANNIVERSARIES

The INHIGEO Anniversary series of concise and popular papers on diverse aspects of the History of the Geological Sciences is published online in the IUGS E-Bulletin.

At the invitation of the IUGS INHIGEO established this series in 2018 for short “Anniversary” articles that focus on a particular event, person, theory or pivotal publication in the Geological Sciences related to a certain year, sometimes down to the actual month, hence the overall title “Anniversaries.”

A short outline of the topic in question is published in the IUGS E-Bulletin with a permanent link to the complete article archived on the Anniversaries page on the INHIGEO Website. The series has been well received and forms an important component of the INHIGEO commission’s outreach activities

If you are interested in submitting contributions for this series, please contact the INHIGEO Publications and Outreach Coordinator.

IUGS E-Bulletin 223,
December 2025
Martina
Kölbl-Ebert
Clara Ehrenberg (1838–1915): early female micropalaeontologist
IUGS E-Bulletin 222,
November 2025
Kenneth L. Taylor Nicolas Desmarest’s Field Examination of Auvergne Volcanic Products
Yields three distint Epochs, 1775
IUGS E-Bulletin 221, October 2025Ernst HammJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832): Essay on Granite 1785
IUGS E-Bulletin 220, September 2025Johannes Mattes
A laboratory in the ice: new culture of Polar Research, 150 years ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 219, August 2025Ezio Vaccari Luigi Ferdinando Marsili’s
Physical History of the sea” (1725)
IUGS E-Bulletin 218, July 2025Lucero
Morelos Rodriguez
Mexican Geologist Maria Fernanda Campa and
the Mexican Petroleum Institute (1965–2025)
IUGS E-Bulletin 217, June 2025Mott T. GreeneAlfred Wegener (1880–1930): The origin of
continents and oceans (1915)
IUGS E-Bulletin 217,
May 2025
Carol Bacon William Harper Twelvetrees died 106 years ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 218, April 2025Cynthia BurekCatherine Alice Raisin (1855–1945): expert on metamorphic rocks and early pioneer of female geological education
IUGS E-Bulletin 215, March 2025Silvia FigueirôaSurveying the brazilian territory:
the first geological survey in Brazil (1875-1878)
IUGS E- Bulletin 215, February 2025Martina
Kölbl-Ebert
The Simplon Tunnel and Nappe Theory 120 years ago
IUGS E- Bulletin 215, January 2025Tina AsmussenAthanasius Kircher and his mundus subterraneus (1665)
IUGS E-Bulletin 215, December 2024Renee M.
Clary
Florence Bascom (1862-1945): first elected woman officer of the Geological Society of America
IUGS E-Bulletin 211,
November 2024
Alexis Plunder,
Gaston Godard
Metamorphic Facies: The Birth of a Concept
IUGS E-Bulletin 210,
October 2024
Ezio
Vaccari
Giovanni Arduino and his Saggio Fisico-Mineralogico (1774)
IUGS E-Bulletin 209,
September 2024
Beatriz
Aguirre-Urreta
National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Argentina
IUGS E-Bulletin 208,
August 2024
Philippe
Le Vigouroux
A European Support to Continental Drift: Emile Argand and His “Tectonics of Asia”
IUGS E-Bulletin 207,
July 2024
Martina
Kölbl-Ebert
Karl Caesar von Leonhard Introduced the Term “Loess”
IUGS E-Bulletin 206,
June 2024
Carol
Bacon
Charles Gould, the First Government Appointed Geological Surveyor of Tasmania
IUGS E-Bulletin 205,
May 2024
Khallaf
El Ghalbi
Emerald Mines in Upper Egypt in the Islamic Period (until the 14th Century): A Neglected Era in Modern History of Mining
IUGS E-Bulletin 204,
April 2024
Ana Carneiro,
Ana Simões,
Maria Paula Diogo
Correia da Serra (1751–1823): “Journal d’une Course en Avril 1774”. The Art of Observing and Describing
IUGS E-Bulletin 203,
February – March 2024
Eugenija
Rudnickaitė
Ignotas Horodeckis (1776–1824): Meteorite Studies by a Lithuanian Mineralogist
IUGS E-Bulletin 203,
February – March 2024
Sandra
Herbert
Charles Darwin’s Volcanic Islands (1844): A View From 180 Years After Publication
IUGS E-Bulletin 202,
December 2023 – January 2024
Gregory A.
Good
John Herschel and His Geologist’s Hammer: 1824 European Tour
IUGS E-Bulletin 202,
December 2023 – Jan 2024
Kennard B.
Bork
Alexandre Brongniart’s Mémoire sur les Terrains de Sédiment Supérieurs Calcaréo-Trappéens du Vicentin (1823)
IUGS E-Bulletin 202,
Dec 2023 – Jan 2024
Silvia
Figueirôa
Researching the Earth from Brazil: Alberto Betim Paes Leme (1883-1938)
IUGS E-Bulletin 201, Oct – Nov 2023Martina
Kölbl-Ebert
BAAS 1st female members 170 years ago: “What is strange, there is generally almost as many ladies as gentlemen present”
IUGS E-Bulletin 200,
Sep 2023
Geir
Hestmark
How Jens Esmark Discovered the Ice Age in 1823 – Serendipity and a Prepared Mind
IUGS E-Bulletin 199,
Aug 2023
Toshihiro
Yamada
Omori Fusakichi: Witness at the 2nd Pan-Pacific Science Congress of the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923
IUGS E-Bulletin 198,
Jun – July 2023
Patrick N. Wyse
Jackson,
Duncan Hawley
Richard Griffith’s Small Scale Geological Map of Ireland (1853)
IUGS E-Bulletin 198,
Jun – Jul 2023
Stephen M.
Rowland
James Dwight Dana and the Concept of Geosynclines
IUGS E-Bulletin 197,
May 2023
Michiko
Yajima
Kono Yasui (1880–1971): The First Japanese Woman to Receive a Doctoral Degree in Science
IUGS E-Bulletin 196,
Apr 2023
Victor R.
Baker
J Harlen Bretz and the Cataclysmic Late Pleistocene Mega-Flooding Origin of the Channeled Scabland
IUGS E-Bulletin 195,
Mar 2023
Lucero
Morelos
The 1803 expedition of Alexander von Humboldt in Mexico
IUGS E-Bulletin 194,
Feb 2023
Joanne
Bourgeois
James and Sarah Hall: The Geology of Western New York (1843)
IUGS E-Bulletin 193,
Jan 2023
Ezio
Vaccari
A Voyage to Lipari published 240 years ago. Déodat de Dolomieu and the Volcanoes of the Aeolian Islands in the Mediterranean Sea (1783)
IUGS E-Bulletin 192,
Dec 2022
Christer
Nordlund
An Anonymous Reformer of Mineralogy: Axel F. Cronstedt at the Swedish Bureau of Mines
IUGS E-Bulletin 191,
Oct-Nov 2022
Martina
Kölbl-Ebert
Earthquake in Chile observed by Maria Graham 200 years_ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 191,
Oct-Nov 2022
Alberto
Riccardi
The Role of Bailey Willis (1857–1949) in the Development of Northern Patagonia
IUGS E-Bulletin 190,
Sep 2022
Johannes
Mattes
The Serbian Geoscientist Jovan Cvijić (1865–1927) and the Emergence of Karst Geomorphology
IUGS E-Bulletin 189,
Aug 2022
Pierre
Savaton
The Contribution of the 1822 Map by Jean-Baptiste Julien d’Omalius d’Halloy to the Geological Cartography of France
IUGS E-Bulletin 188,
Jul 2022
Kathleen Histon,
Martina Kölbl-Ebert,
Ezio Vaccari
Organizing the Geological Sciences: Retreading the Path from International Congresses to Scientific Union
IUGS E-Bulletin 188,
Jul 2022
Sally
Newcomb
Marie Tharp’s Discovery of the Mid Ocean Ridge Rift Valley in 1952
IUGS E-Bulletin 187,
Jun 2022
Sharad
Master
Arthur William Rogers, FRS (1872–1946), Pioneer in the Geological Mapping of the Cape of Good Hope
IUGS E-Bulletin 186,
May 2022
Ezio
Vaccari
Paolo Gorini‘s Experiments on the Formation of Volcanoes in May 1872
IUGS E-Bulletin 185,
Apr 2022
Simon
Nathan
New Zealand Pioneer Geologist Julius von Haast (1822-1887)
IUGS E-Bulletin 184,
Mar 2022
Jiuchen Zhang,
Jingfei Zhang, Gengshen Zhan
Geological Society of China: Foundation and Development
IUGS E-Bulletin 183,
Feb 2022
Martin J.S.
Rudwick
William Buckland’s Bone Cave (1822): Time-Travel Into Earth’s Deep History
IUGS E-Bulletin 182,
Jan 2022
Wolf
Mayer
William Keene: Geologist, Engineer and Collector, in France and New South Wales
IUGS E-Bulletin 181,
Dec 2021
John
Diemer
Roderick Murchison’s Visit to Tcheketau Peak, Russia, 180 Years Ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 180,
Nov 2021
Martina
Kölbl-Ebert
Inge Lehmann Discovered the Inner Earth Core in 1936
IUGS E-Bulletin 179,
Oct 2021
Ezio
Vaccari
Alexander Macmillan Heron – First Geological Survey of the Everest Region, 1921
IUGS E-Bulletin 178,
Sep 2021
Kathleen
Histon
Geology in the Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851
IUGS E-Bulletin 178,
Sep 2021
Sharad
Master
“Symposium on Granites, Gneisses and Related Rocks of Rhodesia” (Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1971)
IUGS E-Bulletin 177,
Aug 2021
Toshihiro
Yamada
Takuji Ogawa (1870–1941): Japanese geographer-geologist founder of the Geology Department in Kyoto University in 1921
IUGS E-Bulletin 176,
Jul 2021
Martina
Kölbl-Ebert
From Volcano to Impact Crater: Shifting a Paradigm
IUGS E-Bulletin 175,
Jun 2021
Carol
Bacon
William Frederick Petterd (1849–1910) and Tasmanian Mineralogy
IUGS E-Bulletin 174,
May 2021
Silvia Figueirôa,
William Brice, Margaret Lopes
Orville Adelbert Derby (1851–1915) and Brazilian Geology
IUGS E-Bulletin 173,
Mar 2021
Steve
Rowland
Charles R. Knight (1874-1953): Life Through the Ages
IUGS E-Bulletin 173,
Feb 2021
Marianne
Klemun
Adolphe von Morlot’s (1820-1867) Quaternary and Pleistocene – points of confusion
IUGS E-Bulletin 169,
Aug 2020
Kenneth L.
Taylor
Scientific Examination of the Falun of Touraine, 300 Years Ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 161,
Dec 2019
Marianne
Klemun
The Geological Survey in Vienna (k.k. Geologische Reichsanstalt): Imperial Geology 170 years ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 153,
Apr 2019
Kenneth L.
Taylor
April 1719: Mairan places the question of Earth’s “central fire” on a new footing
IUGS E-Bulletin 151,
Feb 2019
Marianne
Klemun
Leonardo da Vinci and his possible contributions to geology 500 years ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 150,
Jan 2019
Marianne
Klemun
Alexander von Humboldt: “Unkelstein” in the River Rhine, Basalt and the Pyramids – A Strange Connection 250 Years Ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 149,
Dec 2018
Marianne
Klemun
Charlotte Murchison (1788-1869): a woman not allowed into the field 230 years ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 145,
Aug 2018
C.M.
García Cruz
Facies, a geological concept (1838-2018) — 180 years ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 144,
Jul 2018
Marianne
Klemun
The geologist’s hammer: tool, instrument and badge – 180 years ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 143,
Jun 2018
Marianne
Klemun
Nicolas Steno, born 380 years ago, bared not his own but fossils’ teeth
IUGS E-Bulletin 142,
May 2018
Marianne
Klemun
INHIGEO, IGC 1968 and the Cold War, 50 years ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 141,
Apr 2018
Marianne
Klemun
The hesitant birth of the term geology 240 years ago
IUGS E-Bulletin 140,
Mar 2018
Kenneth L.
Taylor
Basalt, 250 years ago



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