John B. Reeside

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John Bernard Reeside Jr. (born June 24, 1889 in Baltimore , Maryland , † July 2, 1958 ) was an American paleontologist and geologist . His work focused on stratigraphy and ammonites of the Mesozoic Era in North America.

Life

Reeside was the son of a shopkeeper and studied chemistry at Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's degree in 1911. Then he turned to geology under the influence of Charles K. Swartz and worked in the summer of 1912 for the US Geological Survey he was employed after his doctorate in 1915 (over the Helderberg limestone in Pennsylvania). There he was initially involved in the elucidation of the stratigraphy of the San Juan Basin (interrupted by military service with the artillery in World War I), which is also of importance for petroleum geology. He then worked on the geology of the Wasatch Plateau in central Utah and the stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau in Utah and neighboring states. Another project that occupied him to the last was the stratigraphy and ammonite fauna of the formations of the Western Interior Seaway of the Cretaceous in the USA. In 1932 he became head of the paleontology and stratigraphy department of the USGS.

An essay in which he participated in 1933 served as a guide to stratigraphic questions in the United States for a long time.

In 1943 he was President of the Paleontological Society . Reeside was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , whose Mary Clark Thompson Medal he received in 1946.

He had been married since 1918 and had a son and a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • Upper cretaceous and tertiary formations of the western part of the San Juan Basin of Colorado and New Mexico, US Geological Survey Professional Paper 134, 1924, pp. 1-70
  • with WW Rubey and others: Classification and nomenclature of rock units, Bulletin Geolog. Soc. America, 44, 1933, pp. 423-459
  • Paleoecology of the Cretaceous Seas of the Western Interior of the United States, Geological Society of America Memoir 67, 1957, pp. 505-541
  • with William A. Cobban : Studies of the Mowry Shale (Cretaceous) and Contemporary Formations in the United States and Canada, US Geol. Survey Papers 355, 1960, pp. 1–126

literature

  • Carl H. Dane, obituary in the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, 1961, PDF (1.31 MB; English)
personal data
SURNAME Reeside, John B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reeside, John Bernard Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1958