Benjamin Neeve Peach

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Peach (right) with John Horne 1912, Inchnadamph Hotel
Memorial plaque to Peach and Horne, Inchnadamph, Loch Assynt

Benjamin "Ben" Neeve Peach (born September 6, 1842 in Gorran Haven , Cornwall , † January 29, 1926 in Edinburgh ) was a British geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Peach was the son of the amateur geologist and naturalist Charles William Peach (1800-1886). In gratitude for his father finding fossils in Sutherland that were also known from North America from across the Atlantic, Roderick Murchison, then director of the Geological Survey, made it possible for his son to study geology (and made sure that he was included in the Geological Survey). Peach attended the Royal School of Mines and was from 1862 on the Geological Survey of Great Britain, for which he worked in Scotland. He is known for investigating the geological structure of north-west Scotland with his friend John Horne and was in charge of mapping north-west Scotland at the Geological Survey from 1883.

The elucidation of the complicated structure (called Zone of Complicaton ) of the Northwest Highlands with the Moine Thrust (a zone of horizontal thrust ) was mainly due to the field work of Horne and Peach and confirmed the first ideas of Charles Lapworth .

He had been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1892 . In 1921 he received the Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London. In 1892 he received the Murchison Centenary Award and he received the Murchison Medal and the Neill Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , of which he was a member since 1881.

Fonts

  • The Silurian Rocks of Britain , Glasgow, HM Stationery Office, 1899
  • with Jethro Teall , John Horne and others: The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland , HM Stationery Office 1907
  • The Higher Crustacea of ​​the Carboniferous Rocks of Scotland , Memoirs of the Geological Society
  • with Horne Chapters on the geology of Scotland , Oxford University Press 1930
  • The geology of the neighborhood of Edinburgh , Edinburgh, HM Stationery Office 1910
  • Description of Arthur's Seat Vulcano , Edinburgh, HM Stationery Office, 2nd edition 1921
  • Sutherland , Geological Survey of Scotland
  • Stirlingshire , Geological Survey of Scotland

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Peach, Benjamin Neeve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peach, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorran Haven , Cornwall
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1926
Place of death Edinburgh