William Buckland (Axminster, 12 March, 1784 - 24 August, 1856) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur. He was a proponent of Old Earth creationism and Flood geology, who later became convinced by the glaciation theory of Louis Agassiz. Wikipedia
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