Horacio Harrington

Horacio Jaime Harrington y Merani (born September 17, 1910 in Bahía Blanca , Buenos Aires Province , † December 21, 1973 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine geologist and paleontologist.

He was also called Jim Harrington. Harrington went to school in Buenos Aires, where he studied natural sciences from 1929 onwards, completing his doctorate in 1931. He then mapped geologically on an island near Tierra del Fuge, which enabled him to study and do a doctorate with a Prince of Wales Fellowship at Oxford (Ph. D .). Before returning in 1936, he studied Alpine geology at the University of Bern. From 1936 to 1943 he worked for the Argentine geological survey throughout Argentina. At the same time he was from 1936 assistant and from 1942 professor of geology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires . In 1953 he went to a visiting professorship at Hamilton College in the USA and became a research professor at the University of Kansas . In 1957 he became a Rose Morgan Professor there , but soon after switched to Tenneco Oil in Houston as head of the overseas geology department , which he remained until 1964. He then worked as a consulting geologist until he returned to Buenos Aires in 1971. His valuable library, sent separately, sank in a ship off Brazil.

He also taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University (1954), the University of Michigan, and the University of Cincinnati.

He dealt with a wide range of topics on the geology of South America (generally larger structural units and regionally in Argentina especially the Sierras Australes and Pre-Cordilleras, in Chile the regions Antofagasta and Atacama, Uruguay, Eastern Paraguay) and in paleontology trilobites and brachiopods (mostly from Argentina). He wrote articles on the cnidaria and trilobites in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology .

Fonts

• Sections Morphostructural regions of South America , Argentinia , Paraguay , Uruguay in: WF Jenks (editor), Handbook of South American Geology , Geological Society of America, Memoir 65, 1956
• General description of Trilobites, Classification, Suborder Redlichiina, Families Hypermecaspididae, Hapalopleuridae and Pliomeridae. In: RC Moore (Ed.): Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part O. Arhtropoda 1: 38-117, 145-170, 190-194, 269-273, 429-432, 439-442. Lawrence, Kansas 1959
• with Raymond C. Moore : Dipleurozoa, Scyphozoa, Trachylynida, Siphonophorida y Medusae incertae sedis and unrecognizable forms. In: Moore RC, ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part F. Coelenterata. Pp. F21-F23, F24-F27, F27-F38, F38-F53, F54-F66, F68-F76, F77-F80, F145-F152, F153-F161. Lawrence 1957
• with Armando F. Leanza : Ordovician Trilobites of Argentina , University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Special Publication 1, 1957, pp. 1-276
• Geology of parts of Antofagasta and Atacama Provinces, Northern Chile. American Association Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin 45 (2), 1961, pp. 169-197
• Space, Things, Time and Events - An essay on Stratigraphy. American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Bulletin 49 (10), 1966, pp. 1601-1646
• The Cambrian Formations of South America. In: Simposio El Sistema Cámbrico, su paleogeografia y el problema de su base, Part 3, XX Congreso Geológico Internacional (México), 1961, pp. 504-516
• Palaeogeographical Development of South America, AAPG Bulletin 46 (10), 1962, pp. 1773-1814
• Devonian of South America. International Symposium on the Devonian System, Proceedings 1, 1967, pp. 651-671
• Sierras Australes de Buenos Aires. In: AF Leanza (ed.), Geología Regional Argentina, Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Córdoba, 1972, pp. 395-405
• South America, in RW Fairbridge, The Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences, 8 The Encyclopedia of World Regional Geology. Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross 1975

literature

• JCM Turner, Memorial: Horacio Jaime Harrington (1910-1973), AAPG Bulletin 58, November 1974, 2369-2370
• Alberto C. Riccardi, Horacio J. Harrington: Significación y trascendencia de su obra geológica, Ser. correl. geol. no.24 San Miguel de Tucumán jul./dic. 2008, online