Charles Edwin Weaver

Charles Edwin Weaver (born May 1, 1880 in Deerfield , New York , † July 17, 1958 in Pasadena , California ) was an American paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Weaver went to the Utica Free Academy and studied from 1900 at the University of California, Berkeley , paleontology and geology with a bachelor's degree in 1904 and a doctorate in 1907. His dissertation was on the geology of Napa County . He was then a lecturer in geology at the University of Washington in Seattle, from 1912 as an assistant professor, from 1918 as an associate professor and from 1921 as a professor.

For the US Geological Survey he was in Alaska in 1906/7 and he was also at the Geological Survey of the State of Washington, where he especially explored the coastal region. From 1919 to 1926 he worked as a petroleum geologist for Standard Oil of California a lot in South America (including Argentina in the Neuquen province and Panama). To do this, he took a leave of absence from the university for several years. He dealt with the biostratigraphy of the tertiary in California, Oregon and Washington on the basis of microfossils (foraminifera) and mollusks and put on an extensive collection at the university. In retirement he went back to California because of the climate, where he was associated with Caltech.

In 1950 he was president of the Paleontological Society and he was a member of the California Academy of Sciences and the Washington Academy of Sciences. The Mount Weaver in Antarctica is named after him.

Web links

• Dario G. Lazo, Vida y obra de Charles Edwin Weaver (1880-1958) y su paso por la Cuenca Neuquina en los años '20, Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent. v.65 n.2 Buenos Aires oct. 2009