Adrian WA Rushton

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Adrian William Amsler Rushton (* 1937 ) is a British geologist and paleontologist.

He grew up in Cambridge, studied there and did his doctorate with Oliver Bulman on Cambrian geology and paleontology of the Cambrian in the Nuneaton area of ​​the Midlands. He was a paleontologist and geologist with the British Geological Survey and is known for work on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Paleozoic Era in Great Britain and Ireland, especially the Cambrian , for which he is internationally recognized as a leading authority. As a paleontologist, he treated a wide range of taxa, but especially graptolites and trilobites . In particular, he is an expert on graptolite stratigraphy. In addition to Great Britain (there especially Wales with the Snowdonia National Park , the Southern Uplands and the Midlands) he also published, for example, on material from Jordan, Sweden, Arctic Russia and the Falkland Islands .

After retiring from the Geological Survey, he is a Research Associate at the Natural History Museum in London.

Finds of graptolites in the Manx schists of the Isle of Man led to a reassessment of their age in 1992 (Ordovician instead of Cambrian, as was previously thought).

Rushton received the Lapworth Medal and the Palaeontographical Society in 2016 . In 1977 he received the Lyell Fund of the Geological Society of London and in 2002 their Prestwich Medal .

Fonts

  • with PM Bruck, SG Molyneux, M. Williams, NH Woodcock: A Revised Correlation of the Cambrian Rocks in the British Isles, Geological Society of London Special Report 24, 2011
  • with AH Cooper, NJ Fortey, RA Hughes, SG Molyneux, RM Moore, P. Stone: The Skiddaw Group of the English Lake District, British Geological Survey 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Oldroyd , Earth, Water, Ice and Fire: two hundred years of geological research in the English Lake District, Geological Society Memoir No. 25, 2002, p. 197
  2. ↑ With Philip Stone he also published on the geological-paleontological collecting activities of Charles Darwin and others in the Falkland Islands. Rushton edited several collections of fossils from the Falkland Islands.
  3. ↑ Brief biography in the Falkland Island Journal
  4. ^ Douglas Palmer, Fossils force rethink of origins of Man, New Scientist, December 5, 1992
  5. ^ Prestwich Medal 2002
personal data
SURNAME Rushton, Adrian WA
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rushton, Adrian William Amsler (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937