Understanding present-day ideas in Earth sciences would not be complete without taking into account the past knowledge and the evolution of these ideas. In the history of our disciplines we may find keys to understand why specific discoveries and changes of paradigm occurred at specific times and in specific schools. Gaining insight into these processes may help to set our research within a historical frame.
We would like to receive contributions on the history of different research areas in the broad field of the solid earth, including tectonics and geodynamics, sedimentology and geomorphology, petrology and geochemistry, seismology and paleomagnetism, showing the evolution of ideas and observations through time, focusing on the understanding of the societal, technical, religious, philosophical, and observational factors that allowed for changes in the interpretations of the existing data and brought us to where we are now.