List of Geologists - T

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• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), French paleontologist and philosopher, co-discovered Peking man
• Karl von Terzaghi (1883–1963), geologist and civil engineer, called the "father of soil mechanics"
• Marie Tharp (1920–2006), co-discoverer of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge
• Lonnie Thompson (born 1948), USA, glaciologist and ice-core climatologist
• Sigurdur Thorarinsson (1912-1983), Iceland, pioneered the field of tephrochronology
• Raymond Thorsteinsson (born c. 1930), Canada, Arctic geologist
• Phillip Tobias (born 1925), South African palaeoanthropologist, homo habilis pioneer
• Otto Martin Torell (1828–1900), chief of the Geological Survey of Sweden
• Francis John Turner (1904–1985), New Zealand, Igneous and metamophic petrologist
• Joseph Tyrrell (1858–1957), Canadian paleontologist, namesake of Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology