Elias Howard Sellards

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Elias Howard Sellards (born May 2, 1875 in Carter , Kentucky , † February 4, 1961 in Austin , Texas ) was an American paleontologist and geologist.

Sellards graduated from the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kansas with a bachelor's degree in 1899 and a master's degree in 1900 and received his doctorate in paleontology from Yale University in 1903 . He then taught at Rutgers College and was from 1904 professor of geology and zoology at the University of Florida . In 1918 he went to Texas as a geologist at the Bureau of Economic Geology . In 1925 he became an associate director and in 1932 a director, where he retired in 1945. He was also professor of geology at the University of Texas from 1926 and director of the Texas Memorial Museum from 1938 to 1957.

He researched fossil plants and insects from the site of Elmo (Kansas) from the Permian and during his time in Florida the geology and fossils there and looked for archaeological evidence of the early settlement of Florida with finds at Vero Beach . In this context his discovery of gigantic human skeletons in 1916 caused quite a stir. Together with Dr. During his excavations there, Oliver P. Hay of the Carnegie Institution came across Neo-Pistocene bone relics of people with an assumed, downright monstrous height of between about 10 and 12 feet (about 3.05 and 3.66 m). This find immediately sparked a furious scientific controversy, during which Sellards, in defense of his discovery, et al. a. 1917 presented a detailed presentation of the facts.

In Texas, he studied regional geology, examined meteor craters, river terraces, evidence of early settlement and vertebrate fossils and, on behalf of the government, the historical course of the Red River due to a border dispute with Oklahoma . One of its main tasks was the economic geology of Texas.

He was President of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists in 1938 and Vice President of the Geological Society of America in 1943 .

Fonts

  • Early Man in America, University of Texas Press 1952.
  • The Geology of Texas, 2 volumes, Bulletin Bureau Economic Geology No. 3232, No. 3401, 1933, 1934

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bureau of Economic Geology , under: Directors of the Bureau of Economic Geology: Elias Howard Sellards - Director, 1932–1945 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed: April 30, 2014); oA, "GIANTS INHABITED FLORIDA IN THE YEAR 123,084 BC - State Geologist Sellards and Prof. Hay Concur in Opinion After Study of Fossil Found at Vero - Say Men Grew 12 Feet Tall", in: New Smyrna Daily News, Jan. 5, 1917 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beg.utexas.edu
  2. ↑ FLORIDA STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. EH SELLARDS, PH. D., STATE GEOLOGIST. NINTH ANNUAL REPORT; in: Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (ed.), The Journal of Geology , University of Chicago Press, 1917
personal data
SURNAME Sellards, Elias Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Carter , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1961
Place of death Austin , Texas