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The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

By: Bernard E. Leake

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The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

By: Bernard E. Leake

Gregory's remarkable career and his scientific work are detailed and critically assessed. Accounts of his heroic 1893 expedition to the Rift Valley (a term he coined) in Kenya (now the Gregory Rift), his first crossing of Spitzbergen, and his resignation as Leader of the first British Antarctic Expedition of 1901, when racing to the Pole under Scott became the priority, draw on unpublished letters. While in Melbourne he published on mining geology and a series of geography textbooks. His 1901 Lake Eyre expedition in Central Australia initiated the phrase 'The Dead Heart of Australia' and controversy over the source of artesian water. In the Chair of Geology in Glasgow from 1904, he built up the largest first-year geology class in the UK, over 400 students. He worked in every field of geology and every continent except Antarctica. He was also involved with the search for a 'homeland' for the Jews in Libya and Angola. He shrewdly realized that Wegener's Continental Drift Theory erroneously supposed that the Pacific Ocean was wider than now before the Atlantic opened. This led to his influential rejection of Continental Drift. He drowned in Peru traversing the Andes having published over 30 books and nearly 400 articles.

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Geological Society of London

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1862393230

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The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy

By: Richard John Howarth,Bernard E. Leake

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The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy

By: Richard John Howarth,Bernard E. Leake

Frank Coles Phillips was a photographer, mineralogist and structural petrologist and was very influential, both in the UK and abroad. He was responsible for encouraging the development of structural geology as a discipline in Australia and for the adoption of the stereogram as a fundamental interpretational tool in structural geology in the UK. Phillips was the first to apply the methods of structural petrology to unravel the complex structural history of the Moine rocks of northwestern Scotland, with controversial results.

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1862391025

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9781862391024

The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

By: Bernard E. Leake

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By: Bernard E. Leake

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Book's by Bernard E. Leake

The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy

The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy

The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

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