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Re: K

To: Multiple recipients of list <dinosaur@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: K
From: NEIL CLARK <NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 17:00:19 -0500
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I can't remember if it was on this list that someone mentioned that 
'English geologists named the Cretaceous Period using the Latin', 
well...it wasn't:).  A Belgian geologist by the name of Omalius 
d'Halloy, in 1882, proposed the term for strata surrounding the Paris 
Basin (according to Eicher 1976 *Geologic Time*).


Neil Clark
Curator of Palaeontology
Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow
email: NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk

The first law of Geology is the law of supposition.
(Geological Howlers - ed. WDI Rolfe)

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