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    John Joly

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    All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute. ↗


    — John Joly

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    Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space. ↗


    — John Joly

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    That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. ↗


    — John Joly

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    The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. ↗


    — John Joly

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    We live in an epoch of denudation. ↗


    — John Joly

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    Did you know about John Joly?

    He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1876 graduating in Engineering in 1882 in first place with various special certificates in branches of engineering at the same time obtaining a First Class Honours in modern literature. Joly served as President of Section C (Geology) when the British Association for the Advancement of Science which met in Dublin in 1908 during which he presented his paper "Uranium and Geology" an address to the society. It was the first successful process for producing color images from a single photographic plate.

    He is also known for developing techniques to accurately estimate the age of a geological period based on radioactive elements present in minerals.

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