Geology was a predominantly male-dominated field, but from the late 19th century a group of women dedicated their lives to it.
Ida Helen Ogilvie (1864-1963) was a disciple of the pioneering geologist Florence Bascom (1862-1945), who put a generation of women into careers in geology, including Katia Kraft, who devoted her life to volcanoes; Mary Tharp, creator of the first map of the ocean floor or Marie Morisawa, geomorphologist, promoter of a renewal in her field and initiator of environmental geomorphology, Katia Kraft who developed her career as a volcano researcher, taking her to travel the world in search of dangerous volcanic eruptions, Etheldred Benett, expert in fossils, who was admitted in 1836 as a member of the Imperial Society of Natural History in Moscow, thinking, given his name, that he was "an Englishman expert in fossils". When it was discovered that she was a woman, it almost created an international problem. We can also mention Dorothea Bate, who travelled alone to remote sites and, when she needed help, hired local men as guides and interpreters. Between 1901 and 1911, she explored the mountainous areas of Crete, Cyprus and the Balearic Islands, finding fossils of pygmy elephants and hippopotamuses in the first two, and Myotragus balearicus in Mallorca, or María Gordón, who explained how the mountains of South Tyrol in the Alps had been formed. All of them were pioneers and great