James Dwight Dana

(1813–1895) Geologist United States

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James Dwight Dana was a geologist from the United States.

Quick Facts About James Dwight Dana

Born: February 12, 1813
Died: April 14, 1895
Nationality: United States
Profession: Geologist
Notable works: Dana's Manual of Mineralogy for the Student of Elementary Mineralogy, the Mining Engineer, the Geologist, the Prospector, the Collector, Etc
Spouse: Q136291651

About James Dwight Dana

James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Copley Medal Clarke Medal Wollaston Medal Foreign Member of the Royal Society Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Quotes by James Dwight Dana

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt…

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Age

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Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.

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Dreams

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Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes…

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Bottom

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The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again,…

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Grows

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The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the…

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Book

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For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped…

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Australia

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A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or…

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Eminence

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Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

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Accounts

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There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the…

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Book

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“In using the present in order to reveal the past, we assume that the forces in the world are essentially the same…

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Chemistry

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The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

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Earth

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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with…

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Above and below

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Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have…

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Accounts

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Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is…

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Causes

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