List of Geologists - C

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• Stephen E. Calvert, Canadian professor, geologist, oceanographer
• Colin Campbell (born 1931), British petroleum geologist and Peak Oil theorist
• Neil Campbell (1914–1978), Canada, Northwest Territories mineral exploration
• Samuel Warren Carey (born 1911), Australia, continental drift proponent and later developed Expanding Earth hypothesis
• Petr Černý, Czech/Canadian mineralogist
• Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820–1886), France, geologist and mineralogist
• George V. Chilingar, USA, distinguished international petroleum geologist
• Václav Cílek (born 1955), Czech geologist and science popularizer
• John J. Clague, Canada, Quaternary and geological hazards expert
• Thomas H. Clark (1893–1996), Canada, co-author of The Geological Evolution of North America (1960)
• William Branwhite Clarke (1798–1878), Australia (born England), discovered gold in New South Wales, 1841
• Peter Clift (born 1966), United Kingdom, Marine geologist, monsoon researcher
• Hans Cloos (1885–1951), German structural geologist
• Lorence G. Collins, (born 1931), USA, petrologist, discoveries on metasomatism
• Simon Conway Morris (born 1951), palaeontologist and writer
• William Conybeare (1787–1857), England, author of Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
• Isabel Clifton Cookson (1893–1973), Australian paleobotanist and palynologist
• Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897), USA, pioneer dinosaur paleontologist; Bone Wars competitor
• Charles Andrew Cotton (1885–1970), New Zealand, geologist and geomorphologist
• James Croll (1821–1890) Scottish scientist who developed the theory of climate change based on changes in the Earth's orbit.
• Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), France, proponent of catastrophism