Subcategories - Earth Sciences
- Miller Discovers a Dinosaur Egg Containing the Oldest Known Embryo
- New Fault Is Discovered Under Los Angeles
- Oldham and Mohorovičić Determine the Structure of the Earth’s Interior
- Ozone Hole Is Discovered
- Petrified Dinosaur Heart Is Found in South Dakota
- Piccard Invents Bathyscaphe
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Powerful Earthquake Hits Kobe, Japan
- Rachel Carson
- Richter Develops a Scale for Measuring Earthquake Strength
- Robert Duane Ballard
- Rowland and Molina Theorize That Ozone Depletion Is Caused by Freon
- Rudolf Geiger
- Schaefer Performs Cloud Seeding by Using Dry Ice
- Scientists Develop a Technique to Date Ancient Obsidian
- Scientists Identify Crater Associated with Dinosaur Extinction
- Scientists Report Record-Size Hole in Antarctic Ozone Layer
- Scientists Warn That CFCs Are Destroying the Ozone Layer
- The Sealab 2 Expedition Concludes
- Shuttle Endeavour Gathers Radar Images for Three-Dimensional Maps of Earth
- Sir Charles Lyell
- Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield
- Solar One, the Prototype Power Tower, Begins Operation
- Teisserenc de Bort Discovers the Stratosphere and the Troposphere
- Tiros 1 Becomes the First Experimental Weather Reconnaissance Satellite
- The U.S. Bureau of Mines Is Established
- United Nations Environmental Conference
- The United States Government Bans DDT Use to Protect the Environment
- Van Allen Discovers the Earth’s Radiation Belts
- Vilhelm Bjerknes
- Wegener Proposes the Theory of Continental Drift
- White House Conservation Conference
- Wiechert Invents the Inverted Pendulum Seismography
- World Meteorological Organization Reports Ozone Loss
- World Nations Approve Kyoto Plan for Reducing Harmful Emissions
- X-Ray Crystallography Is Developed by the Braggs
