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The riddle of the greywacke: a story of friendship and rivalry, failure and success
Author(s) -
Davidson Nick
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/gto.12351
Subject(s) - rivalry , friendship , geology , sociology , social science , macroeconomics , economics
In the early 1800s, two of the greatest geologists of the nineteenth century set out to solve one of the big riddles of the age: the early history of the Earth. This is the story of the moment when one of the greatest scientific collaborations of Victorian Britain turned into a bitter and destructive rivalry that dominated the new science of geology for two decades.