
Florence Bascom’s Backgroundįlorence Bascom comes out as an outstanding geologist in a field dominated by men for the achievements she was able to attain during her lifetime. The paper intends to find out more about her life and her contribution towards the field of geology. The most outstanding geologist who forms the basis of the paper is Florence Bascom. They include Louis Agassiz, Edward Drinker, Charles Darwin, and James Hutton among many others. The world has seen great geologists who have had a great impact on the field of geology. It is meant to bring about the understanding of materials making up the earth and their impact on it.Īs Nentwich explains, geologists are scientists who study the earth’s structure and the changes that happen to it (127). Therefore, the study of the materials making up the earth in addition to how the materials relate with others is known as geology. The earth is stratified in such a way that there are different layers making it up with each layer being made up of certain materials that define it. It comprises solid matter, gaseous matter, and liquid matter, which have been balanced in a way to hold each other to make the earth. The Earth is made up of several materials that come together to bring the balance that coexists between materials.
