Editing 1907 in science (section)

==Geology==
* January 14 – [[1907 Kingston earthquake]]: [[Earthquake]] in [[Kingston, Jamaica]].
* c. March 28 – [[Volcanic eruption]] of [[Ksudach]] in the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]].
* [[Bertram Boltwood]] proposes that the amount of lead in uranium and thorium ores might be used to determine the Earth's age and crudely dates some rocks to have ages between 410–2200 million years.
* The [[Moine Thrust Belt]] in [[Scotland]] is identified by [[Ben Peach]] and [[John Horne]], one of the first to be discovered.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peach, B. N.|title=The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland|series=Memoirs of the [[Geological Survey of Great Britain]], Scotland|location=Glasgow|publisher=H.M.S.O|display-authors=etal}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Highlands Controversy: Constructing Geological Knowledge through Fieldwork in Nineteenth-Century Britain|last=Oldroyd|first=David R.|isbn=978-0-226-62634-5|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1990}}</ref>
* The rare [[phosphate mineral]] [[tarbuttite]] is first discovered at [[Kabwe|Broken Hill]], [[Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Tarbuttite|url=http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/tarbuttite.pdf|work=Handbook of Mineralogy|publisher=Mineral Data Publishing|accessdate=2012-07-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Spencer|first=L. J.|title=On Hopeite and other zinc phosphates and associated minerals from the Broken Hill mines, North-Western Rhodesia|journal=Mineralogical Magazine|date=April 1908|volume=15|issue=68|pages=1–38|url=http://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_15/15-68-1.pdf|publisher=The Mineralogical Society|accessdate=2012-07-19|doi=10.1180/minmag.1908.015.68.02|bibcode=1908MinM...15....1S|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106184049/http://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_15/15-68-1.pdf|archive-date=2014-01-06|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Ludovic Mrazek]] describes and names [[diapir]]s.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/S0021-9673(00)94556-4|title=Tswett's letters to Claparède|journal=Journal of Chromatography A|volume=440|page=509|year=1988|last=Hais|first=I. M.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0QqRBrPs5YC&pg=PA11|pages=11–12|title=Continental Drift: Colliding Continents, Converging Cultures|isbn=9781420034523|author=Roman|first=Constantin|year=2000}}</ref>