This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on science and scientists.
Where a group is described as “great” or “important” this is not intended to imply these necessarily the greatest or most important, but only that they are up there amongst the top flight.
Earth Science Discoveries
- Internal structure of Earth
- Continental Drift
- Seafloor Spreading
- Plate Tectonics
- Troposphere and Stratosphere
- Magnetic Field Reversal
- Dating using radioactivity
- Seismology
- Super volcanos
- The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary marking the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs