The Copper Wars, called by some the Battle of Butte, took place from 1898 to 1906 between the Anaconda Copper Company and companies owned by Fredrick Augustus Heinze. One of the minor but significant players these wars was young Anaconda geologist Reno Sales (1876-1969). In his eighties, […]
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Vergences and fractals Field geologists have long known that the style and relationships of structures seen in a hand specimen, outcrop or drill core can mimic the style and relationships of much larger structures that formed during the same deformation but occur at the scale of a geological […]
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The science of geology was born in the last few decades of the 18th and the first few decades of the 19th centuries. Its development was one of advancing ideas and knowledge, but the new knowledge above all was driven by the progressive improvement in geological method, and in […]
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