George Julius Poulett Scrope
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George Julius Poulett Scrope FRS was an English geologist and political economist as well as a Member of Parliament and magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire.
George Julius Poulett Scrope
The Eruption of Vesuvius as seen from Naples, October 1822, drawn by Scrope in 1864
Christian Leopold von Buch
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Christian Leopold von Buch, usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder and is remembered as one of the most important contributors to geolo
George Julius Poulett Scrope
…operation currently were able to have produced past geological changes – the present is a key to explaining the past. He rejected aqueous origins and Von Buch's elevation-crater theory – which held that craters were caused by the buckling of the crust below them. Because the friendship of Scrope and Lyell…
Christian Leopold von Buch, by Carl Joseph Begas (1850)
Statue of Leopold von Buch in Berlin, sculpted by Richard Ohmann