George William Lamplugh
George William Lamplugh (born April 8, 1859 in Driffield , † October 9, 1926 ) was a British geologist and geographer.
Life
At first he was only an amateur geologist and was a successful businessman in Yorkshire.
From 1892 he was at the invitation of Archibald Geikie at the Geological Survey of Great Britain, where he took over the management of Ireland in 1901 and was responsible for all field work as deputy director in 1914.
He dealt with Ice Age deposits, first in his home town, the port city of Bridlington (where the seabeds were pushed up by the ice), later also in the rest of Great Britain and abroad, e.g. B. in Canada, Svalbard and Alaska. He also dealt with Mesozoic stratigraphy (Speeton Clay, Lower Cretaceous) and regional geology of the Isle of Man and Ireland.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1925 he received the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London, of which he was temporarily president. The Lamplugh Glacier in Alaska and Lamplugh Island in Antarctica are named after him.
See also
Fonts
- Geology of the Isle of Man , London 1903 (with petrographic appendix by William Whitehead Watts )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bridlington Crag , Boulder clay with mussels
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lamplugh, George William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Driffield |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1926 |