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Intro

 * Hapkeite‎; Florencite-(Sm); Boilerplate; Sandboxes
 * Library and Biographies; Volcanism - Extinktion; Contributions
 * Introduction to Mineralogy (sandbox and booklet): Block A, Block B, Block C, Block D

For easy reference

 * Wikibooks Cookbook; Template messages/User talk namespace; EN Stats; strategy.wiki; Category:Wikipedians who have access to JSTOR; Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies); Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles; Wikipedia:Good article criteria; Wikipedia:The perfect article; Wikipedia:Department directory; Citation templates; Category:Earthquake templates Learning the basics of French; Google Scholar; Wikipedia Signpost; ; WP:RfA

Vandalism

 * Special:PendingChanges; Vandalism; WP:AIV, WP:AN/I
 * WP Earthquakes; WP Geology; WP Volcanoes, WP Rocks&minerals; WP Ecology; WP Food&drink; WP Chem&BioEng; WP CH

WikiPro

 * Wikipedia talk: WP Geology; WP Rocks and minerals
 * WP Volcanoes; WP Earthquakes; Task Force Meteorites; WP Mining; WP Resource Exchange
 * Global watchlist for WikiProject Volcanoes; Geology; Ecology; Food; Bio; WikiProject Volcanoes/Popular pages; WikiProject Earthquakes/Popular pages; Volcanoes Quality log; Portal:Volcanoes/Categories; New Page Search

Minerals

 * List of minerals recognized by the IMA; Category:Minerals by crystal system; Mineralienatlas; CH
 * The Mineralogical Record; American Mineralogist
 * List of minerals - IMA/ CNMNC (November 2012) (March 2009) (October 2008)
 * Rruff IMA Database of Mineral Properties
 * IUPAC Nomenclature, multipliers
 * Anions: borates (B), fluoroborates, borosilicates, boroaluminosilicates, aluminosilicates, fluorosilicates, titanosilicates, zirconosilicates, silicates, nitrates, carbonates, aurates (AuOx), argentates (AgOx), chromates (CrOx), cuprates (CuOx), ferrates (FeOx), plumbates (PbOx), stannates (SnOx), vanadates (VOx)
 * Uranyl cation ,
 * Uranium(V): shinkolobweite, richetite and wyartite.
 * Anion complex and uranyl ion
 * HOM (Min. Soc. of A); Mineralienatlas; Cabinet-de-Mineralogie; The Canadian Mineralogist
 * Biographies; Names; Curators (Seaman); ROM; Fersman
 * Nickel-Strunz: Mindat (10 ed, pending publication) - Webmineral
 * Zeomics, IZA-SC: LTA (Linde Type A, zeolite A), MOR (mordenite), STI (stilbite), MFI (ZSM-5), CHA (chabazite, SSZ-13), ANA (analcime), GIS (gismondine), HEU (heulandite/ clinoptilolite), ERI (erionite), FER (ferrierite), LAU (laumontite), PHI (phillipsite), STI (stilbite), FAU (faujasite/ X zeolites or Y zeolites) - AFG (afghanite), CAN (cancrinite), NAT (natrolite), SOD (sodalite)
 * Meteorites; Meteoritical Bulletin Database

Overview

 * Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals‎, Timeline of geology, Timeline of the development of tectonophysics, History of mineralogy, History of petroleum, Timeline of geology, Timeline of paleontology, Timeline of quantum mechanics, Geologic timeline of Western North America, Geologic time scale, Timeline of chemical elements discoveries
 * List of minerals named after people, List of mineralogists, List of geologists, Roebling and Dana Medal, Ambrose Medal, Royal Medal, Copley Medal, Wollaston Medal, User:Skysmith/Missing topics about Geology and Geography, User:AlexNewArtBot/MineralogySearchResult‎

Users

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Food for thought

 * If only, ppl would love themselves
 * If only, ppl would be sincere to themselves
 * If only, ppl would forgive themselves

The Truth just Is. Excellence discovers & uncovers the Truth. Business interests can hide the Truth through consensus.


 * Navigation:
 * The Phoenicians told the Earth is flat with an horrible edge. Nobody can navigate without assuming an Earth globus & its orbiting around the Sun. Pitagoras (6th century BC) and Aristoteles (4th century BC) knew that the Earth can't be flat. The Egyptian astronomers saw the shadow of the Earth on the Moon. Christopher Columbus assumed a globus, but he assumed its diameter too small as well.
 * Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Giordano Bruno defended that the Sun is the center of the Solar System.
 * Irrtum Enzyklopaedie der populaeren Irrtuemer Irrtuemer u. Niederlagen
 * Cassiterite is derived from the term “Cassiterides” which was applied 'islands off the western coast of Europe' in pre-Roman times (britisch and the irish islands, Phoenician language). (mineralienatlas.de)
 * The Silk Roads connect Chang'an (now called Xi'an) to Constantinople. They did not know the existence of each other.
 * The frankincense came from Oman to the Mediterranean Sea through Saba (Incense Route). Nobody knew that it is a resin from a Boswellia tree, but they were told that incense is Dragon's tears.
 * Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli (before 1884, while writting his main work about inheritance) became known as the man who discouraged Augustinian priest Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics. Carl Erich Correns published Mendel's reference (from 1866) January 25, 1900.
 * Mendel, J.G. (1866). Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn, Bd. IV für das Jahr, 1865 Abhandlungen:3–47. For the English translation, see:.
 * Consensus can be wrong. Alfred Lothar Wegener's theorie (1 November 1880 – November 1930) of continental drift (1912) could have failed 1939, if Alfred Rittmann (IAVCEI President 1954-1963) did not defend the theorie with his observation, raising doubts. Orogenic volcanism is dominated by calc-alkaline igneous rocks, lacking sodic alkali-basaltic magmas; whereas the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (extension) has mainly alkali-basaltic magmas. Still, only 1968 did the Earth Siences paradigm changed; gravity anomaly survey, sonar survey and geomagnetic survey were needed to nail it.
 * ; Expanding Earth, 311-349.
 * Wegener had a PhD in Astronomy, what did not help. Wegener did not take enough time for his paper, probably. He did it in the second half of 1905, just, he wanted to join an expedition to Greenland. His main interest was meteorology, and he didn't see the controversy storm coming.
 * The geologists agree with his data on Geography, Glaciology, Paleontology and old Orogeny. The Geophysicists had problems with no driving force and a deformable/ movable crust in such a large scale. By hindsight, all had wrong concepts, but were right in a way too: the drifters, the anti-drifters, the fixists, the permanentists, the contracting Earth supporters, and the expanding Earth supporters (the continents are passive, the seafloor spreading is active).
 * The unifying theory of Einstein's general relativity and Planck's quantum mechanics needs more dimensions than energy, volume and time. But the human in vitro fertilisation is not checking the offspring.
 * Edwin Hubble
 * He discovered (1929) that v (velocity) = H (Hubble constant) x d (distance). But Georges Lemaître publicized it 1927, much later Hubble could have told that the priority belonged to Lemaître. Lemaître told that he used Vesto Slipher's velocities, Hubble didn't. Lemaître believed in an expanding universe, Hubble didn't. Hubble classified the galaxies (1926), his correspondence cites the work of John Reynolds (astronomer), but his publications don't cite Reynolds.
 * Missoula Floods
 * The Geological Society of Washington, D.C, January 12, 1927 - controversy goes the next 40 years...
 * Geologists J Harlen Bretz and Joseph T. Pardee vs. the U.S. geological establishment (it smacked of Catastrophism). Uniformitarianism was the prevailing view in the U.S.
 * Wiki quote: "It would be oversimplifying it to say that this was because the geology establishment held uniformitarian views. The geology establishment was resistant to such a sweeping theory for the origin of a broad landscape for a variety of reasons, including lack of familiarity with the remote areas of the interior Pacific Northwest where the research was based, and the lack of status and reputation of Bretz in the eyes of the largely Ivy League-based geology establishment".
 * Gerta Keller states that the K/T extinction event took 2 Ma and that the Chicxulub hit was 300,000 years earlier. But consensus tries to block challenges to Chicxulub hypothesis. Gerta Keller and Vincent Courtillot do not agree with Chicxulub as a single cause, they believe rather in multiple causes, e.g.: global marine regression, Chicxulub hit, Shiva hit, Deccan flood basalts. Many extinction events are related to marine regressions and flood basalts.
 * The sequence of events between the end of the Maastrichtian age and 300,000 years before are still matter of debate.
 * (There is a Science review though: )
 * (And there is a Science reply: )
 * But Gerta Keller disagrees:
 * Note: K-Pg boundary with a value of 66.23 Ma
 * Asteroiden-Einschlag gab den Dinosauriern den Rest
 * High-resolution dating technique: Chicxulub impact (c. 66,038,000 ya) and argon-argon dating of volcanic ash samples unearthed above the iridium-rich layer (c. 66,043,000 ya, error is now down to 0.1%) (US-geologist Paul Renne, Berkeley Geochronology Center, University of California, Berkeley)
 * International System of Units (General Conference on Weights and Measures): mole (unit) was a number, it is an unit since 1971. Standard mass should be 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C).
 * The Geological Society of Washington, D.C, January 12, 1927 - controversy goes the next 40 years...
 * Geologists J Harlen Bretz and Joseph T. Pardee vs. the U.S. geological establishment (it smacked of Catastrophism). Uniformitarianism was the prevailing view in the U.S.
 * Wiki quote: "It would be oversimplifying it to say that this was because the geology establishment held uniformitarian views. The geology establishment was resistant to such a sweeping theory for the origin of a broad landscape for a variety of reasons, including lack of familiarity with the remote areas of the interior Pacific Northwest where the research was based, and the lack of status and reputation of Bretz in the eyes of the largely Ivy League-based geology establishment".
 * Gerta Keller states that the K/T extinction event took 2 Ma and that the Chicxulub hit was 300,000 years earlier. But consensus tries to block challenges to Chicxulub hypothesis. Gerta Keller and Vincent Courtillot do not agree with Chicxulub as a single cause, they believe rather in multiple causes, e.g.: global marine regression, Chicxulub hit, Shiva hit, Deccan flood basalts. Many extinction events are related to marine regressions and flood basalts.
 * The sequence of events between the end of the Maastrichtian age and 300,000 years before are still matter of debate.
 * (There is a Science review though: )
 * (And there is a Science reply: )
 * But Gerta Keller disagrees:
 * Note: K-Pg boundary with a value of 66.23 Ma
 * Asteroiden-Einschlag gab den Dinosauriern den Rest
 * High-resolution dating technique: Chicxulub impact (c. 66,038,000 ya) and argon-argon dating of volcanic ash samples unearthed above the iridium-rich layer (c. 66,043,000 ya, error is now down to 0.1%) (US-geologist Paul Renne, Berkeley Geochronology Center, University of California, Berkeley)
 * International System of Units (General Conference on Weights and Measures): mole (unit) was a number, it is an unit since 1971. Standard mass should be 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C).
 * But Gerta Keller disagrees:
 * Note: K-Pg boundary with a value of 66.23 Ma
 * Asteroiden-Einschlag gab den Dinosauriern den Rest
 * High-resolution dating technique: Chicxulub impact (c. 66,038,000 ya) and argon-argon dating of volcanic ash samples unearthed above the iridium-rich layer (c. 66,043,000 ya, error is now down to 0.1%) (US-geologist Paul Renne, Berkeley Geochronology Center, University of California, Berkeley)
 * International System of Units (General Conference on Weights and Measures): mole (unit) was a number, it is an unit since 1971. Standard mass should be 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C).
 * Asteroiden-Einschlag gab den Dinosauriern den Rest
 * High-resolution dating technique: Chicxulub impact (c. 66,038,000 ya) and argon-argon dating of volcanic ash samples unearthed above the iridium-rich layer (c. 66,043,000 ya, error is now down to 0.1%) (US-geologist Paul Renne, Berkeley Geochronology Center, University of California, Berkeley)
 * International System of Units (General Conference on Weights and Measures): mole (unit) was a number, it is an unit since 1971. Standard mass should be 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C).
 * Asteroiden-Einschlag gab den Dinosauriern den Rest
 * High-resolution dating technique: Chicxulub impact (c. 66,038,000 ya) and argon-argon dating of volcanic ash samples unearthed above the iridium-rich layer (c. 66,043,000 ya, error is now down to 0.1%) (US-geologist Paul Renne, Berkeley Geochronology Center, University of California, Berkeley)
 * International System of Units (General Conference on Weights and Measures): mole (unit) was a number, it is an unit since 1971. Standard mass should be 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C).
 * International System of Units (General Conference on Weights and Measures): mole (unit) was a number, it is an unit since 1971. Standard mass should be 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C).
 * International System of Units (General Conference on Weights and Measures): mole (unit) was a number, it is an unit since 1971. Standard mass should be 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C).
 * International System of Units (General Conference on Weights and Measures): mole (unit) was a number, it is an unit since 1971. Standard mass should be 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C).


 * The IPCC sums up the emissions. But the atmosphere oxidises sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane too, as Peter Langdon Ward states. The dynamic equilibrium of the mass balance is emissions, consumption, and accumulation.
 * Andy Saunders and Marc Reichow seem to help Peter L. Ward, quote (figure caption): "Extinction rate versus time (multiple-interval marine genera, modified from Sepkoski, 1996) compared with eruption ages of continental flood basalts. Three of the largest mass extinctions, the Permo-Triassic, Triassic-Jurassic (ETE) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T), correspond with the eruptions of the Siberian Traps, the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, and the Deccan Traps, respectively. Three oceanic plateaus, the Caribbean (CP), Kerguelen (KP), and Ontong Java (OJP) are included. Modified after White and Saunders (2005)."
 * The Siberian Traps.
 * The Shiva hypothesis
 * Other scientific scandals
 * North Pole: Robert E. Peary vs. Frederick Cook (helper Harry Withney)
 * Ref.: Terra X: Die Nordpol-Verschwörung, Archive von New York Times und Neue Zürcher Zeitung
 * 30s and 40s: face hair removal usind X-Rays.
 * 1. Nothing but a ray of light, New Scientist, September 2007.
 * 2. Rebecca Herzig, Removing roots, North american hiroshima maidens, Technology and culture, Vol 40, No. 4.
 * 3. Steven Lapidus, The Tricho System: Hypertrichosis, Radiation, and Cancer, Journal of Surgical Oncology, Vol 8, Seite 267.
 * 4. Cipollaro, A. C., and Einhorn, M. B. The use of X rays for the treatment of hypertrichosis is dangerous, JAMA, Vol 135, Seite 349.
 * University of Basel. Kurt Wehrle is elected, and dies May 1994. Georg Kreis is elected.
 * 1. Unser Kampf für Geschichte. Hrsg v. der Fachgruppe Geschichte der Universität Basel, 1982
 * 2. Staatsarchiv Basel
 * Marie Curie's liaison dangereuse. Paul Langevin & Marie Curie. Love letters get stolen and published. Divorce and the wife gets the children. Marie Curie almost didn't get her 2nd Nobel Prize. Paul Langevin gets another lover and Marie Curie gets cancer and dies.
 * Ref.: Susan Quinn, Marie Curie: A life, 1996, ISBN: 0-201-88794-0
 * Alder Hey organs scandal: Southampton, Leeds und im Hammersmith-Spital in London, mainly: organs of babies were kept in formaldehyd, without parent's consent.
 * Ref.: BBC
 * Heritability of IQ: prof. Cyril Burt, behaviour psychology
 * 1. Der Spiegel, Schwindel mit Zwillingen, 16.10.1978
 * 2. New York Times, Britons Classic I. Q. Data Now Viewed as Fraudulent, 28.11.1976
 * 3. The Times
 * Astrologist fr:Elizabeth Teissier's PhD, sociology professor Maffesoli, Sorbonne
 * Ref.: Le monde diplomatique, Der Spiegel, New York Times
 * March 1952, gay prof. Alan Turing calls the police and comits suicides 8 July 1954.
 * Ref.: Um den Weltruhm geprellt, Weltwoche, 22. 7. 2004; turingarchive.org
 * David Reimer, once Brenda Reimer, former Bruce Reimer, comits suicide 5 May 2004. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case.
 * Ref.: BBC Horizon, Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUTcwqR4Q4Y
 * Public Health Service makes a study about Syphilis with blacks from 1932 until 1972 (State Alabama). People in the study did not get penicillin even (after WW II).
 * Ref.: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/index.html
 * In-vitro fertilisation of human eggs. Behaviour/ police statistics is missing. God can't change His mind, eugenics is impossible.
 * Food from genetic modified plants doesn't induce cancer
 * Advertisenment: smoking is good for your health
 * David Reimer, once Brenda Reimer, former Bruce Reimer, comits suicide 5 May 2004. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case.
 * Ref.: BBC Horizon, Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUTcwqR4Q4Y
 * Public Health Service makes a study about Syphilis with blacks from 1932 until 1972 (State Alabama). People in the study did not get penicillin even (after WW II).
 * Ref.: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/index.html
 * In-vitro fertilisation of human eggs. Behaviour/ police statistics is missing. God can't change His mind, eugenics is impossible.
 * Food from genetic modified plants doesn't induce cancer
 * Advertisenment: smoking is good for your health


 * Top Badass Men
 * Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006), film 'Hacksaw Ridge' (2016).
 * Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen (February 2, 1886 – September 2, 1957) was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist.
 * Hugh Glass (c. 1783 – 1833), films 'Man in the Wilderness' (1971) and 'The Revenant' (2015).
 * Lieutenant-Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming "Jack" Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996) was a British Army officer.
 * John Fairfax (21 May 1937 – 8 February 2012) was a British ocean rower and adventurer.
 * Louis Silvie "Louie" Zamperini (January 26, 1917 – July 2, 2014), films 'Unbroken' (2014) and the 'Captured by Grace' (2015).
 * US Navy pilot Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa (27 July 1914 – 23 January 2013).
 * Simo "Simuna" Häyhä (December 17, 1905 – April 1, 2002), nicknamed "White Death" by the Red Army, was a Finnish marksman.
 * Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971), film 'To Hell and Back' (1955).
 * Albert Jacka, VC, MC & Bar (10 January 1893 – 17 January 1932) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross.
 * Witold Pilecki (13 May 1901 – 25 May 1948) was the author of Witold's Report, the first comprehensive Allied intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp and the Holocaust.
 * Shavarsh Karapetyan (b. 1953) is a retired Soviet Armenian finswimmer, a World and European champion, best known for saving the lives of 20 people in a 1976 incident in Yerevan.
 * Top Badass Men ("single" event)
 * Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1869 – 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916). He did not die from cyanide poisoning or from being shot.
 * Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov (14 March 1934 – 21 September 2000) was a Soviet general practitioner who took part in the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1960–1961). He operated his apendicitis himself.
 * C. Dale Petersen was born just outside of Jackson, Wyoming (b. 1914, he killed a bear with his bare hands).
 * Monsieurs de Grandpré and Monsieur Le Pique fought for the hand of Mademoiselle Tirevit in the skies above Paris on hot air balloons (1808).
 * Michael Malloy (1873 – February 22, 1933): fraud with five life insurances.
 * Top Badass Women
 * Sacagawea (c. 1788 – December 20, 1812) and her husband Toussaint Charbonneau were on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, during which she gave birth and carried her baby (she was a Shoshone Indian woman and interpreter).
 * Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc; 6 January c. 1412[6] – 30 May 1431).
 * Agustina Raimunda María Saragossa Domènech, or Agustina of Aragón (March 4, 1786 – May 29, 1857), known as "the Spanish Joan of Arc".