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A minor point is that the 1952 AAPG article we cited in the EOS article isn't the oldest citation for this idea. A more substantive point is that by the time women were entering the geology workforce in non-trivial numbers, Pratt had revised his famous assertion to include both male and female minds.

Reference:
Dedera, Don, 1976, Finding Sermons in Stone, in ExxonUSA magazine, 4th quarter, p.27-31.
Pratt, W., 1943, Oil in the Earth, Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 110 pp.]]> Kim Kastens 1252802220 http://serc.carleton.edu/earthandmind/posts/oil_first_fou.html#post3568