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Ed Landing

American geologist and paleontologist

Aug 12, 2026

4:39
So, I guess, Ed, why is this building important, and who exactly was James Hall?
4:45
Okay, as you noted, I am New York State paleontologist emeritus, paleontologist studies ancient life, and truly North America's most famous paleontologist, lived in Albany, He started the State Museum here.
5:03
He started its geological survey.
5:07
He worked in the second half of the 1800s.
5:12
He had kind of a global perspective.
5:15
First person to work on rocks and fossils in California, in Utah, in Maritime Canada.
5:25
He first developed the idea of a mobile earth where mountains rose through an immense period of geologic time and then were eroded.

6 MINS LATER

11:37
Is there anything more you'd like to share about, you know, James Hall's own legacy? You've done some of that, but are there other things that people might be interested in?

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