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    Grove Karl Gilbert (May 6, 1843 – May 1, 1918), known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist. Gilbert...
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    description of Meteor Crater to a scientific community. In November 1891, Grove Karl Gilbert, chief geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, investigated the...
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    range composed of exposed laccoliths. It was here that geologist Grove Karl Gilbert carried out pioneering field work on this type of intrusion. Laccolith...
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    size, also called intersection over union (IoU). It was developed by Grove Karl Gilbert in 1884 as his ratio of verification (v) and now is often called the...
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  • ice hockey player Grove Karl Gilbert (1843–1918), American geologist Gustave Gilbert (1911–1977), American psychologist Helen Gilbert (1922–2012), American...
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    salt, approximately 90% of which is common table salt. Geologist Grove Karl Gilbert named the area after Benjamin Bonneville, a U.S. Army officer who...
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  • with Davis's cycle due to evidence from the Western United States, Grove Karl Gilbert suggested backwearing of slopes would shape landscapes into pediplains...
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    Narrows was descended (and named) in 1872 by geologist and explorer Grove Karl Gilbert as part of the Wheeler Survey. His party traveled from Navajo Lake...
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    Hudleston Hudleston 1898 Ferdinand Zirkel 1899 Charles Lapworth 1900 Grove Karl Gilbert 1901 Charles Barrois 1902 Friedrich Schmidt 1903 Heinrich Rosenbusch...
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    deltas include the Mackenzie delta and the Alta delta. A Gilbert delta (named after Grove Karl Gilbert) is a type of fluvial-dominated delta formed from coarse...
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