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King was an author of numerous pamphlets including, "The
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King was part of the women's club of Sydney that was a club of women with interests in science, art and public and private work. Eventually leading to her making the
Tertiary Period Catastrophism theory describing that mineral deposits on geological structures were caused by heat, magnetism, and
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from the 1870s until 1881, and then travelled to
Britain and Europe. She experienced a significant amount of hardship in her years working geology. Often like she was being taken advantage of or not being taken seriously enough in an industry dominated by males. Eventually she wrote two
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in 1892, King sent them to be published in newspapers like the Sydney
Morning Herald. Similarly she sent her papers to the University of Sydney and other scientists to consider. Her controversial ideas and claims to theories posed by other scientists, led to further ridicule.
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Victoria. Recalling the geological history she had been taught in her youth, and inspired by the work of McCoy and others, King proposed a 'Tertiary Period Catastrophism' theory to the wider scientific community. When her paper on this theory was rejected by the
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King published papers on anthropological subjects after 1900. She used some of her father's work on
Aborigines to expand her ideas, and continued to elaborate on her geological theory of evolution. She was elected a fellow of the
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had stolen ideas of relativity she had created. Kings eventually reached out to T. H. Huxley in order to get a response to her theories, one of these theories being that diamonds were once marine organisms.
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electric that created volcanic action. King believed that other scientists were trying to steal her ideas such as her idea of
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