List of Geologists - L

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• Charles Lapworth (1842–1920), English Geologist, defined the Ordovician Period
• Andrew Lawson (1861–1952), USA (born Scotland), named San Andreas fault
• Richard Leakey (born 1944), Kenyan paleontologist
• Joseph LeConte (1823–1901), USA, first professor of geology, University of California
• Robert Legget (1904–1994), Canadian non-fiction writer, civil engineer, pedologist
• Inge Lehmann (1888–1993), Danish seismologist, discovered Lehmann discontinuity
• Luna Leopold (1915–2006), eminent American hydrologist
• Xavier Le Pichon (born 1937), French plate tectonics geophysicist
• Waldemar Lindgren (1860–1939), distinguished Swedish-American economic geologist
• Li Shizhen (1518–1593), Ming Dynasty Chinese mineralogist, author of the Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica)
• Martin Lister (c. 1638–1712), England, pioneer geologist
• William Edmond Logan (1798–1875), Canada, founded Geological Survey of Canada
• Fred Longstaffe, Canada, Provost of University of Western Ontario
• Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875), Scottish geologist, popularized principle of uniformitarianism