Editing List of geologists (section)

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[[Image:Florence Bascom.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Florence Bascom]], 1893]]
* [[Ralph Bagnold]] (1896–1990), British, studied deserts and the physics of sand
* [[Andrew Geddes Bain]] (1797–1864), South African, prepared first detailed geological map of [[South Africa]]
* [[Bashiru Ademola Raji]], Nigerian geologist and [[pedogenesis]]t
* [[Robert T. Bakker]] (born 1945), American dinosaur [[paleontologist]]; author, ''[[The Dinosaur Heresies]]''
* [[Octávio Barbosa]] (1907–1997), Brazilian field geologist and prospector; Gold Medal, [[Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia]]
* [[Thomas Barger]] (1909–1986), American, pioneered oil exploration in [[Saudi Arabia]], later CEO of [[Aramco]]
* [[Anthony R. Barringer]] (1925–2009), Canadian/American [[geophysicist]] and inventor
* [[Charles Barrois]] (1851–1939), French [[geologist]] and [[paleontologist]]
* [[Florence Bascom]] (1862–1945), American, first woman geologist at the [[US Geological Survey]]
*[[Éliane Basse]] (1899–1985), French geologist and research director at the [[French National Centre for Scientific Research|National Center for Scientific Research]] (CNRS)
* [[Abhijit Basu]], Indian born American geologist
* [[Robert Bell (Canadian geologist)|Robert Bell]] (1841–1917), considered Canada's greatest explorer-scientist
* [[Walter A. Bell]] (1889–1969), Canadian [[paleobotanist]] and [[stratigrapher]]
* [[Helen Belyea]] (1913–1986), Canadian [[geologist]] best known for her research of the [[Devonian System]].
* [[Reinout Willem van Bemmelen]] (1904–1983), Dutch, structural geology, economic geology and volcanology
* [[Etheldred Benett]] (1776–1845), English, pioneer [[paleontologist]]
* [[Pierre Berthier]] (1782–1861), French geologist, discovered the properties of [[bauxite]]
* [[Luca Bindi]] (born 1971), Italian geologist, discovered the first natural quasicrystal [[icosahedrite]]
* [[Eliot Blackwelder]] (1880–1969), American field geologist, president of the [[Geological Society of America]]
* [[George Stanfield Blake]] (1876–1940), British geologist
* [[William Blake (economist)|William Blake]] (1774–1852), President of the Geological Society of London 1815–1816
* [[William Phipps Blake]] (1826–1910), American geologist
* [[Selwyn G. Blaylock]] (1879–1945), Canadian chemist and mining executive with [[Teck Cominco|Cominco]]
* [[Stewart Blusson]] (born 1939), Canadian, co-discoverer of [[Ekati Diamond Mine]]
* [[Alexei Alexeivich Bogdanov]] (1907–1971), Soviet geologist
* [[Bruce Bolt]] (1930–2005), American (born Australia), pioneer engineering [[seismologist]] in California
* [[José Bonaparte]] (1928–2020), Argentinian [[paleontologist]], discovered many South American dinosaurs
* [[William Borlase]] (1696–1772), Cornish natural historian, studied the minerals of Cornwall
* [[Norman L. Bowen]] (1887–1956), Canadian, pioneer experimental [[petrologist]]
* [[Scipione Breislak]] (1748–1826), Italian mineralogist and geologist, pioneer of [[volcanic gas]] collection
* [[J Harlen Bretz]] (1882–1981), American, discovered origin of [[channeled scablands]]
* [[David Brewster]] (1781–1868), Scottish physicist, studied the optical properties of minerals.
* [[Wallace S. Broecker]] (1931–2019), American [[paleoclimatologist]] and [[chemical oceanography|chemical oceanographer]]
* [[Robert Broom]] (1866–1951), South African [[palaeontologist]], discovered [[australopithecine]] hominid fossils
* [[Barnum Brown]] (1873–1963), American, [[dinosaur]] hunter and self-taught [[paleontologist]]
* [[Christian Leopold von Buch]] (1774–1853), German [[geologist]] and [[paleontologist]]
* [[Mary Buckland]] (1797–1857), English, [[paleontologist]], [[marine biologist]] and [[scientific illustrator]]
* [[William Buckland]] (1784–1856), English, wrote the first full account of a fossil [[dinosaur]]
* [[Judith Bunbury]] (born 1967), British, geoarchaeologist
* [[B. Clark Burchfiel]] (1934-2024), [[MIT]] structural geologist, studied the [[Tibetan Plateau]]; member of [[National Academy of Sciences]]
* [[Perry Byerly]] (1897–1978), American geophysicist and seismologist