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Louis J. Cabri (born 1934), Canadian, geologist and mineralogist, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada Stephen E. Calvert (born 1935), Canadian professor, geologist, oceanographer; awarded Logan Medal Colin Campbell (1931–2022), British petroleum geologist and Peak Oil theorist Neil Campbell (1914–1978), Canadian, Northwest Territories mineral exploration; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada Samuel Warren Carey (1911–2002), Australian, continental drift proponent and later developed Expanding Earth hypothesis María Casanova de Chaudet (1899–1947), Italian-born Argentine geologist, director of Argentina's first petrographic laboratory Petr Černý (1934–2018), Czech/Canadian mineralogist, won Logan Medal; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820–1886), French, geologist and mineralogist George V. Chilingar (1929–2023), American, distinguished international petroleum geologist Václav Cílek (born 1955), Czech geologist and science popularizer John J. Clague (born 1946), Canadian, Quaternary and geological hazards expert Thomas H. Clark (1893–1996), Canadian, co-author of The Geological Evolution of North America (1960) William Branwhite Clarke (1798–1878), Australian (born England), discovered gold in New South Wales, 1841 Peter Clift (born 1966), British marine geologist and monsoon researcher, best known for work in Asia Hans Cloos (1885–1951), prominent German structural geologist Lorence G. Collins, (born 1931), American, petrologist, discoveries on metasomatism Simon Conway Morris (born 1951), palaeontologist and writer, best known for study of Burgess Shale fossils William Conybeare (1787–1857), English, author of Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822) Isabel Clifton Cookson (1893–1973), Australian paleobotanist and palynologist, namesake of genus Cooksonia Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897), American, pioneer dinosaur paleontologist; Bone Wars competitor Charles Cotton (1885–1970), New Zealand, geologist and geomorphologist James Croll (1821–1890), Scottish scientist who developed the theory of climate change based on changes in the Earth's orbit Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French, proponent of catastrophism Lindsay Collins (1944–2015), Australian marine geologist and sedimentologist

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G. Brent Dalrymple (born 1937), United States, author The Age of the Earth (1991), winner National Science Medal, 2005 James Dwight Dana (1813–1895), American, author of System of Mineralogy (1837) Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist, author of On the Origin of Species, atoll formation George Mercer Dawson (1849–1901), Canadian, pioneer Yukon geologist, Fellow of the Royal Society John William Dawson (1820–1899), Canadian, pioneer Acadian geologist, Fellow of the Royal Society Henry De la Beche (1796–1855), English, first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain Duncan R. Derry (1906–1987), Canadian economic geologist, awarded Logan Medal Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815), French, pioneer volcanologist Thomas Dibblee (1911–2004), American, geological mapper and pioneer of San Andreas Fault movement study William R. Dickinson (1930–2015), Arizona, American, plate tectonics, Colorado Plateau; Member of National Academy of Sciences Robert S. Dietz (1914–1995), American, seafloor spreading pioneer, awarded Penrose Medal Déodat de Dolomieu (1750–1801), French geologist Ljudmila Dolar Mantuani (1906–1988), Slovenian petrologist, first female professor of petrography in Yugoslavia Louis de Loczy (1897–1980), Hungarian-Brazilian geologist Ignacy Domeyko (1802–1889), Slavic-Chilean geologist and mineralogist, namesake of the mineral domeykite Robert John Wilson Douglas (1920–1979), Canadian petroleum geologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Aleksis Dreimanis (1914–2011), Latvian-Canadian award-winning Quaternary geologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Hugo Dummett (1940–2002), South African mineral-exploration geologist, co-discoverer of Ekati Diamond Mine Alexander du Toit (1878–1948), South African geologist, established correlations between Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and South Africa Clarence Edward Dutton (1841–1912), American, author of Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District

== E == Edith Ebers (1894–1974), German geologist, glaciologist Heinz Ebert (1907–1983), German-Brazilian, geologist, petrologist; awarded gold medal, Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia Fanny Carter Edson (1887–1952), American petroleum geologist Niles Eldredge (born 1943), American, paleontologist; theory of punctuated equilibrium Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874), French, prepared first geological map of France Kay-Chrisitan Emeis, German geologist and academic W. G. Ernst (born 1931), American, Stanford petrologist and geochemist, member of National Academy of Sciences Pentti Eskola (1883–1964), Finnish geologist and professor who created the concept of metamorphic facies Robert Etheridge, Junior (1847–1920), Australian (born England) paleontologist, longtime curator of the Australian Museum Raul-Yuri Ervier (1909–1991), Soviet geologist, an eminent organizer and head of wide-ranging geological explorations that discovered of the largest oil and gas fields in Western Siberia Maurice Ewing (1906–1974), American, pioneering geophysicist and oceanographer

== F == Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741–1819), French, pioneer volcanologist Mikhail A. Fedonkin (born 1946), Russian paleontologist, awarded Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865–1950), Canadian, mineral collector, namesake of the mineral Ferrierite Judy Fierstein, American, volcanology and petrology researcher of the U.S. Geological Survey Frederick C. Finkle (1865–1949), American consulting engineer and geologist; Chief Engineer on 18 major dam projects Michael Fleischer (1908–1998), American chemist and mineralogist Charles E. Fipke (born 1946), Canadian, co-discoverer of Ekati Diamond Mine Richard Fortey (1946–2025), English, trilobite paleontologist, author, Fellow of the Royal Society Yves O. Fortier (1914–2014), Canadian, High Arctic explorer, won Logan Medal Gillian Foulger (born 1952), British, professor of geophysics at Durham University; awarded Price Medal William Fyfe (1927–2013), Canadian geochemist, won Wollaston Medal

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Patrick Ganly (1809–1899), Irish surveyor and geologist, described the use of cross-bedding in stratification Robert Garrels (1916–1988), American geochemist, revolutionized aqueous geochemistry Archibald Geikie (1835–1924), Scottish, geologist, President of the Royal Society Mark S. Ghiorso (born 1954), American geochemist, thermodynamic modeling of magma Grove Karl Gilbert (1843–1918), American, influential Western geologist, won Wollaston Medal James E. Gill (1901–1980), Canadian, McGill University professor, explorer, Logan Medal winner Victor Goldschmidt (1888–1947), Norwegian (born Switzerland), a founder of modern geochemistry Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American paleontologist and writer L. C. Graton (1880–1970), American, Harvard economic geologist, awarded Penrose Gold Medal Alexander Henry Green (1832–1896), English, surveyed Derbyshire and Yorkshire, Fellow of the Royal Society George Bellas Greenough (1778–1855), English, gentlemanly geologist, founding member and first President of the Geological Society John Walter Gregory (1864–1932), English, geology of Australia and East Africa, glacial geology, President of the Geological Society of London (1928–1930) Robbie Gries (born 1943), American, first female president (2001–02) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Djalma Guimarães (1894–1973), Brazilian geochemist and mineralogist in Minas Gerais Henry C. Gunning (1901–1991), Canadian (born Northern Ireland), British Columbia geologist, Logan Medal winner

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