Fossil-wood
61Pinus Lambertina — Pinite Pi nite, n. [L. pinus the pine tree.] 1. (Paleon.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family. [1913 Webster] 2. (Chem.) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine… …
62William Nicol — (1770 1851) was a Scottish physicist and geologist who invented the first device for obtaining plane polarized light the Nicol prism in 1828. He was born in 1770 in Humbie (East Lothian), not 1768 as previously thoughtFact|date=February… …
63Alfaroa —   Alfaroa …
64carnotite — /kahr neuh tuyt /, n. Mineral. a yellow, earthy, hydrous potassium uranium vanadate: an ore of uranium. [1895 1900; named after A. Carnot (d. 1920), French mining official; see ITE1] * * * ▪ mineral radioactive, bright yellow, soft and earthy… …
65nonpetrified — adjective Not petrified (hardened by deposition of minerals). nonpetrified fossil wood Syn: unpetrified …
66palaeoxylology — noun the study of fossil wood, whether petrified or not …
67Domenico Troili — An illustration (1833) of the Victorian vision of a meteorite storm …
68Mulligan Peak — (77°11′S 160°15′E / 77.183°S 160.25°E / 77.183; 160.25) is an ice free peak 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) north of Robison Peak, at the north end of Willett Range in Victoria Land …
69Octávio Barbosa — (April 29, 1907 January 31, 1997) was a Brazilian geologist. Barbosa was born in Ituverava, where he lived with his parents on a farm until 13 years old. He learned to read at the age of five, and had his secondary education at schools in… …
70Nicol , William — (1768–1852) British geologist and physicist Little is known about Nicol s early life except that he was born in Scotland. Primarily a geologist, he lectured in natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh where James Clerk Maxwell was… …
