1822 in Science - Geology

Geology

  • Georges Cuvier establishes new standards and methods in stratigraphy and paleontology.
  • Gideon Mantell discovers the first fossil of the iguanodon.
  • John Phillips and William Conybeare identify the Carboniferous Period.
  • Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy identifies the Cretaceous Period. He also proposes the Jurassic System.

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