Re: K

[NEIL CLARK <NCLARK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)