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  5. The History of the Geological Survey of Canada in 175 Objects

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175 objects by category

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1840s

  • 1. Letter of Recommendation (1842)
  • 2. "My Tent" (1843)
  • 3. Joggins Fossil Cliffs (1843)
  • 4. Logan's Wheel Odometer (1840s)
  • 5. Government Act (1845)
  • 6. Logan's Notebooks (1846)
  • 7. Lake Superior Copper Crystals (1846)
  • 8. Jasper Conglomerate (1846)
  • 9. Huronian System (1847)

1850s

  • 10. International Expositions (1851)
  • 11. "Scobies Almanac" (1851)
  • 12. Canada's Oldest Scientific Library (1854)
  • 13. Madoc Meteorite (1854)
  • 14. Canada's First Major Mining Camp (1856)
  • 15. Graptolithus logani (1857)

1860s

  • 16. Fossil Tracks (1860)
  • 17. First Field Photographs (1860)
  • 18. Logan's Line (1860)
  • 19. Petroleum in 1861 (1861)
  • 20. "Geology of Canada" (1863)
  • 21. Eozoon canadense (1864)
  • 22. First Geological Map of Canada (1864)

1870s

  • 23. Mica Crystal (1871)
  • 24. Precambrian Fossils of Newfoundland (1872)
  • 25. Fossil Fish (1872)
  • 26. The Canoe (1874)
  • 27. Boundary Report (1875)
  • 28. Rock and Mineral Sets (1875)
  • 29. Lebetodiscus dicksoni (1870s)
  • 30. Maps in 19th Century Canada (1870s)
  • 31. Department of the Interior (1877)
  • 32. Anthropology (1878)
  • 33. Fossil Feather (1879)

1880s

  • 34. New Headquarters (1881)
  • 35. National Museum (1881)
  • 36. Miguasha (1881)
  • 37. Albertosaurus (1884)
  • 38. Canadian Rockies Geology (1886)
  • 39. Burgess Shale (1886)
  • 40. North-Western Exploration (1887)
  • 41. Images of Early Canada (1880s)
  • 42. Oil Sands (1888)
  • 43. Athabasca Basin (1888)
  • 44. Pillars in Potsdam Sandstone (1888)
  • 45. Notman Composite Photograph (1888)

1890s

  • 46. Ice Sheets (1890s)
  • 47. Iron Ore (1896)
  • 48. First Seismographs (1897)
  • 49. Yukon Gold Rush (1898)

1900s

  • 50. Gravity Measurement (1902)
  • 51. First Canadian Flag on Ellesmere Island (1904)
  • 52. First Government Observatory (1905)
  • 53. "Economic Geology" Series (1909)
  • 54. Gold-bearing Quartz (1909)

1910s

  • 55. Victoria Memorial Museum Building (1911)
  • 56. Logan Boulder (1913)
  • 57. Hiatella arctica (1917)
  • 58. The Bush Plane (1919)

1920s

  • 59. Fossil Genus Named for Canada (1922)

1930s

  • 60. The Survey's Bestseller (1930)
  • 61. Canada's First Uranium Mine (1932)
  • 62. "Pack Horse Tracks" (1934)
  • 63. Rock Cairns and Topographic Survey Markers (1930s)
  • 64. Strategic Minerals for the War (1938)

1940s

  • 65. 100th Anniversary Film (1942)
  • 66. Ottawa Geology (1946)
  • 67. Vancouver Island Earthquake (1946)
  • 68. Three-Component Magnetometer (1946)
  • 69. Omars (1940s)
  • 70. Airborne Magnetic Surveys (1947)
  • 71. The DHC-2 Beaver (1947)
  • 72. North Magnetic Pole (1948)

1950s

  • 73. Brent Crater (1951)
  • 74. The Helicopter (1952)
  • 75. Geochronology Laboratory (1953)
  • 76. Extraterrestrial Impact Structures in Canada (1950s)
  • 77. Operation Franklin (1955)
  • 78. The Logo (1956)
  • 79. Polar Continental Shelf Project (1958)
  • 80. Bay of Islands (1958)
  • 81. Tundra Tires (1958)
  • 82. Booth Street Headquarters (1959)

1960s

  • 83. Bruderheim Meteorite (1960)
  • 84. Radiocarbon Laboratory (1961)
  • 85. First Electron Probe Microanalyzer (1962)
  • 86. Nuclear Explosion Monitoring (1962)
  • 87. Seafloor Spreading (1963)
  • 88. "Rock and Minerals for the Collector" Series (1963)
  • 89. Strong Motion Seismograph (1963)
  • 90. LaCoste & Romberg Gravimeter (1960s)
  • 91. Alaska Earthquake Tsunami (1964)
  • 92. Operation Bow-Athabasca (1965)
  • 93. Ice Cores and Climate Change (1960s)
  • 94. Muskox Intrusion (1966)
  • 95. Weloganite (1966)
  • 96. Wall Art (1967)
  • 97. Rock Map of Canada (1967)
  • 98. Core and Cuttings Repository (1967)
  • 99. Groundwater Publications (1967)
  • 100. Mineral Names (1960s)
  • 101. Magnetometers (1968)
  • 102. West Coast Offices (1968)
  • 103. Queenair and Skyvan Aircraft (1968)
  • 104. Terrascope (1968)
  • 105. Basalt from the Seafloor (1968)
  • 106. Glacial Map of Canada (1968)
  • 107. Moon Rocks (1969)

1970s

  • 108. Airborne Gamma-ray Spectrometry (1970)
  • 109. National Seismic Hazard Maps (1970)
  • 110. First Use of Computers in Field Mapping (1970)
  • 111. First Digital Open File (1970)
  • 112. Marine Geology (1971)
  • 113. CSS Hudson (1971)
  • 114. National Seismograph Network (1971)
  • 115. Hornbrook Sampler (1972)
  • 116. Cordilleran Terranes (1972)
  • 117. Logan Park (1974)
  • 118. "Reading the Rocks" (1975)
  • 119. Huntec Deep-Tow System (1976)
  • 120. Microfossils (1970s)
  • 121. Arctic Ventifact (1970s)
  • 122. Ocean Bottom Seismometer (1970s)
  • 123. Operation Morning Light (1978)
  • 124. Gold Geochemistry (1979)

1980s

  • 125. BASIN Database (1981)
  • 126. Acasta Gneiss (1983)
  • 127. Lithoprobe (1984)
  • 128. Kapuskasing Uplift (1984)
  • 129. Blue Books (1984)
  • 130. Canadian Mineral Deposits (1984)
  • 131. Beaufort Sea Project (1984)
  • 132. Ice Island (1984-1989)
  • 133. Electric Rock-Core Drill (1980s)
  • 134. Fossil Forests (1985)
  • 135. Massive Submarine Sulphide Deposits (1985)
  • 136. Turbidity Currents (1986)
  • 137. Organic Geochemical Biomarkers (1987)
  • 138. Montagnais Impact Structure (1987)
  • 139. United Plates of America (1988)
  • 140. East Coast Basin Atlases (1989)

1990s

  • 141. Volcanic Ash (1990)
  • 142. NATMAP (1991)
  • 143. First Digital Geological Map (1991)
  • 144. Coastal Survey Cap (1991)
  • 145. Canada's First Diamond Mine (1991)
  • 146. Commemorative Cairn (1992)
  • 147. Mount Edziza (1992)
  • 148. 150th Anniversary (1992)
  • 149. Microminerals (1990s)
  • 150. "No Stone Unturned" (1992)
  • 151. Mount Logan (1992)
  • 152. Tsunami Deposits (1994)
  • 153. Geological Atlases of Western Canada (1994)
  • 154. St-Robert Meteorite (1994)
  • 155. Decade of North American Geology (1995)
  • 156. SHRIMP (1995)
  • 157. Nansen Sled (1990s)
  • 158. Multibeam Sonar Map of Seafloor (1990s)
  • 159. New Geological Map of Canada (1996)
  • 160. Geoscape Posters (1996)
  • 161. Nunavut Office (1999)

2000s

  • 162. 2.5D Models for Geological Maps (2000)
  • 163. Mallik Gas Hydrate (2002)
  • 164. Episodic Tremor and Slip (2003)
  • 165. GanFeld (2004)
  • 166. Geophysical Data Repository (2005)
  • 167. Groundwater and Agriculture (2007)
  • 168. Field Notebook (2008)

2010s

  • 169. Geological Map of the Arctic (2011)
  • 170. First Standard Surficial Geology Legend (2012)
  • 171. Canada's Extended Continental Shelf (2013)
  • 172. "Four Billion Years and Counting" (2014)
  • 173. Magnetic Anomaly Map of Canada (2015)
  • 174. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (2016)
  • 175. Gold Medal (2016)

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