Google goes underground with geology-themed Doodle

Search giant Google paid tribute Wednesday to Danish geology pioneer Nicholas Steno with a geology-themed Doodle showing layers of rock and soil.

 

Visitors to Google's homepage (www.google.com) were greeted with a doodle showing the letters in "Google" resembling layers of rock.

 

Hovering over the Doodle would indicate Jan. 11 is the Danish pioneer's 374th birth anniversary.

 

As in the past, clicking on the Doodle will take the visitor to a Google search results page for "Nicolas Steno."

 

Steno is remembered for his study on the formation of rock layers and the fossils they contain, which was crucial to the development of modern geology.

 

The principles he stated continue to be used today by geologists and paleontologists, according to the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

 

UCMP said Steno was born as Niels Stensen, but he is better known by the Latinized forms of his name, Nicholas Stenonis or Nicholas Steno.

 

He was also a Danish pioneer in anatomy and is now considered the father of geology and stratigraphy. — TJD, GMA News