Alexander Henry Green

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Alexander Henry Green (born October 10, 1832 in Maidstone , † August 19, 1896 in Boars Hill near Oxford ) was a British geologist who was significantly involved in the geological survey of Derbyshire and Yorkshire .

Life

Green was the son of the principal of the Ashby Grammar School (which he also attended) in Ashby-de-la-Zouche and studied at Cambridge, where he became a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College in 1851 and was sixth in mathematics on the Tripos. He received his MA in 1858 and stayed in college until 1861 when he joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain. From 1867 he was a state geologist there. It began in the Mesozoic strata (Jurassic, Cretaceous) of the Midlands and then went north over predominantly Carboniferous formations in Derbyshire and Yorkshire. In 1874 he became professor of geology and from 1875 also of mathematics at Yorkshire College in Leeds . For many years he also taught geology at the Pioneer School (School of Military Engineering) in Chatham (Kent) . In 1888 he succeeded Joseph Prestwich as professor of geology at Oxford.

In the Geological Survey he worked alone or with colleagues Banbury (published 1864), Stockport (1866), Tadcaster (1879), Dewsbury (1871), Barnsley (1878), Wakefield (1879), the north of Derbyshire (1869, 2nd edition 1887) and the Yorkshire coalfield (1869, 1878, with Russell, John Roche Dakyns , C. Ward).

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1886) and the Geological Society of London (1862) and received the Murchison Medal in 1892 . He was also later an honorary fellow at his old college at Cambridge. In 1890 he was President of the Geology Section at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Leeds.

Fonts

  • Manual of Physical Geography. 1876, 3rd edition, Rivingtons, London 1882.
  • with R. Russell, JR Dakyns, JC Ward, C. Fox-Strangways, WH Dalton, TV Holmes: The Geology of the Yorkshire Coalfield. (= Memoirs of the Geological Survey [Coalfield]. ) Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1887 ( pubs.bgs.ac.uk ).

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SURNAME Green, Alexander Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Maidstone
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1896
Place of death Boars Hill near Oxford