Aaron C. Waters

Aaron Clement Waters (born May 6, 1905 in Waterville , † May 18, 1991 in Tacoma ) was an American geologist and volcanologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz .

Waters grew up on a farm in Washington state and its location in the middle of the Columbia plateau basalts sparked his interest in geology, which he studied at the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in 1926 and a master's degree in 1927. After graduating from Yale University in 1930 , he became a faculty member at Stanford University , which he remained until 1952 when he became a professor at Johns Hopkins University . During World War II, he worked for the US Geological Survey from 1942 to 1945 in search of strategically important minerals. From 1963 to 1967 he was chairman of the geology faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and in 1967 he was founding professor in the Faculty of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He retired in 1972 but continued to conduct research for the US Geological Survey and as a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

He dealt with the volcanology and petrology of igneous rocks and the geology of the Pacific Northwest such as the Cascade Mountains and the Columbia Plateau basalts. He examined various forms of basalt volcanism from flood basalts to explosive maar eruptions, but also alkali rocks and granite batholiths . with metamorphism, geomorphology, structural geology and economic geology. He also worked on planetary geology as an advisor to NASA on the lunar landing mission.

In 1982 he received the Penrose Medal . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1964) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1938/39 he was a Guggenheim Fellow in Scotland and Scandinavia.

Fonts

with James Gilluly, AO Woodford: Principles of Geology, 4th edition, San Francisco: Freeman 1975 (1st edition 1951)
Basaltic magma types and their tectonic associations: Pacific Northwest of the United States. In: Crust of the Pacific Basin, American Geophysical Union Monograph 6, 1962, pp. 158-170.
with RV Fisher: Base surge bed forms in maar volcanoes, Am. J. Science, Vol. 268, 1970, pp. 157-180.
with Richard S. Fiske, Clifford A. Hopson: Geology of Mount Rainier National Park Washington, US Geological Survey Special Paper 444, Washington DC 1963, pp. 1-93
with Charles B. Hunt: Origin and evolution of the Magmas, in: Structural and igneous geology of the La Sal Mountains, Utah, US Geological Survey Special Paper 294, 1958, pp. 348-355
Determining direction of flow in basalts, Am. J. Sci., Vol. 258 A, 1960, pp. 350-366
Stratigraphic and lithologic variations in the Columbia River basalt, Am. J. Sci., Vol. 259, 1961, pp. 583-611.
with JM Donnelly-Nolan, BW Rogers: Selected caves and lava-type systems in and near Lava Beds National Monument, California. US Geol. Surv. Bull., 1673, 1990, pp. 1-102

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SURNAME	Waters, Aaron C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Waters, Aaron Clement (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waterville
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1991
Place of death	Tacoma