Talk:William Smith (geologist)
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I'll be working on Mr. Smith - all are specifically invited to join in.
I reduced the claim about first geological map as Robert Townson produced a map of Hungary in 1779 titled: New Map of Hungary, particularly its Rivers and natural Productions. It used colours to indicate different rock types such as granite, micaceous Schist, schist, limestone, sandstone, calcareous tufaporphyry and tuff. GB 12:15, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Note that the house picture is not smith's house...check out book Simon Winchester, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, (2001), New York: HarperCollins, ISBN 0-14-028039-1
Smith's house is actually another one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.217.86.14 (talk) 20:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] His map
I have added a pic of a map based closely on smiths map and a pic of his fossils. Peterlewis (talk) 20:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
