a benchmark paper in paleogeography. "[A] widely circulated report to the Office of Naval Research" [...] that "was the most referenced work in solid earth geophysics in the years 1966-1968". The "paper stimulated intense research and is part of what is the major advance in geologic science of this century." Sedimentology and stratigraphy First statement of three fundamental laws of geology: the law of superposition, the principle of original horizontality, and the principle of cross-cutting relationships. A foundational work in biostratigraphy. "...Cuvier and Brongniart integrated that enriched geognosy with the geohistorical perspective: the structural sequence of formations and their fossils was turned into a temporal sequence or narrative of ecologically distinctive periods punctuated by occasional sudden changes". The first geological map covering such a large area in detail, and is one of the first stratigraphical analyses to utilize paleontological indices. A rough sketch of the map was drawn in 1801 possibly influencing Alexandre Brongniart when he visited England in 1802. Argument for the existence and relevance of deep sea deposist on land which had until then been rejected by influential geologists. The basis for the widely used folk classification for clastic and carbonate rocks Provided new evidence and revived interest for the Precambrian world-wide glaciations. Structural geology "one of the first reports of an attempt to scale deformation experiments on a rock-analogue material (clay) and to conduct detailed kinematic and strain analyses of the three end-member types of faulting (thrust, normal, and strike-slip)". Expanded on Ernest Masson Anderson's earlier (1905) "recognition of the surface boundary condition of zero shear stress". Began a whole school of structural geology that used the techniques of continuum mechanics to understand rock structures. Widely cited publication on the microstructure of mylonites. It is credited for contributing to a transition in tectonic structural geology towards a kinematic approach. Much cited reference work in microtectonics. Paleontology A definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and still a work in progress. It covers every phylum, class, order, family, and genus of fossil and extant (still living) invertebrate animals. Raymond C. Moore was the founder and first editor. and With these two publications Adolf Seilacher established the concept of ichnofacies. Seismology The first scientific paper written by a woman and published in the Transactions of the Geological Society, London. Defined a version of elastic anisotropy using transversely isotropic media that could be analyzed