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Dutch Pioneers in Earth Sciences

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The papers collected in this volume, given at a Dutch history of science symposium, present a historical survey of Dutch contributions to earth science. 
Topics covered include: the pioneering stratigraphic studies of the eighteenth-century naturalist Francq van Berkhey; 
the 1863 geology lectures of Staring and his geological map of the Netherlands; the Maastricht Cretaceous finds in the emergence o
f Dutch vertebrate palaeontology; and the founding of ground water hydrology in the Netherlands.