Laurence L. Sloss

Laurence L. Sloss , called Larry Sloss (born August 26, 1913 in Mountain View , California , † November 2, 1996 in Evanston (Illinois) ), was an American geologist .

Sloss studied at Stanford University and received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1937 . He then taught at the School of Mines in Butte (Montana) and from 1947 at Northwestern University , where he worked with the stratigraphers Ed Dapples and William C. Krumbein . In 1971 he became William Deering Professor of Geological Sciences there. In 1981 he retired.

He is considered to be the pioneer of sequence stratigraphy in the USA.

In 1986 he received the Penrose Medal and in 1980 the William H. Twenhofel Medal and the President's Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He was president of the Geological Society of America .

Fonts

with William C. Krumbein : Stratigraphy and Sedimentation, San Francisco: Freeman 1951
Stratigraphic models in exploration, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Volume 46, 1962, pp. 1050-1057
Sequences in the cratonic interior of North America, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 74, 1963, pp. 93-113

personal data
SURNAME	Sloss, Laurence L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sloss, Larry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mountain View (Santa Clara County, California)
DATE OF DEATH	November 2, 1996
Place of death	Evanston (Illinois)