Charles Peter Berkey

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Charles Peter Berkey (born March 25, 1867 in Goshen (Indiana) , † August 22, 1955 in Palisade (New Jersey) ) was an American geologist.

Berkey was the son of little farmers, attended schools in Indiana, Texas, and Minnesota, and was a village schoolteacher for a while before studying geology at the University of Minnesota with a master's degree in 1893 and a doctorate in 1897 (the first Ph.D. in University geology). Newton Horace Winchell was one of his teachers . He was an instructor at the University of Minnesota and from 1903 tutor (under James Furman Kemp ) and from 1910 assistant professor, from 1914 associate professor and from 1916 professor at Columbia University . In 1929 he became a Newberry Professor and in 1937 he retired.

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He was a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and its President in 1928. Berkey was an honorary member of the ASCE . From 1922 to 1940 he was secretary and in 1941 president of the Geological Society of America .

He has had an interest in engineering geology since his involvement in the Catskill Aqueduct of New York's water supply and was involved in the Colorado River Project from 1928, which resulted in the Hoover Dam . He has been involved in major engineering projects in New York and California and has worked on the Minnesota and Wisconsin Geological Survey. In 1948 he received the first James Furman Kemp Medal from Columbia University and he was awarded honorary degrees from Columbia University (1929) and the University of Minnesota.

In 1922, 1923 and 1925 he took part in a geological expedition to Mongolia.

He had been married to Minnie Best since 1894 and had two children.

Fonts

  • Areal and Structural Geology of Southern Manhattan Island. On. NY Ac. Sci., 19. 1909, pp. 247-282, * Geology of the New York City (Catskill) Aqueduct. NY St. Mus. Bull., 146, 1911, pp. 1-283.
  • with JR Healy: The Geology of New York City and Its Relations to Engineering Problems (with discussion). Municipal Engineers of the City of New York, Paper 1911, New York 1912, pp. 5-39.
  • Geology of Boulder and Norris Dam Sites. Civ. Eng., 5, 1935, pp. 24-28
  • The Geologist in public works, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 53, 1942, pp. 513-532
  • with FK Morris: Mongolia, a reconnaissance report. Based on the investigations of the years 1922/23, Natural History of Central Asia, Volume 2, American Museum of Natural History 1927

literature

  • The application of geology to engineering practice, Geological Society of America, Berkey-Volume 1950 (commemorative publication with articles on various aspects of engineering geology, including Karl Terzaghi on landslides)

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personal data
SURNAME Berkey, Charles Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH near Goshen (Indiana)
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1955
Place of death Palisade (New Jersey)