Philip Burke King

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Philip Burke King (born September 24, 1903 in Chester , † April 25, 1987 ) was an American geologist.

King graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor's degree in 1924 and a master's degree in 1927, and received his PhD from Yale University in 1929 . From 1930 he was with the US Geological Survey .

He also taught at the University of Texas from 1925 to 1927, from 1929/30 at the University of Arizona, from 1954 to 1956 at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in 1965 he was visiting professor at Lomonossow University.

He dealt with the Paleozoic and especially Permian in Texas ( Marathon region, Guadalupe Mountains ) and Oklahoma ( Glass Mountains ). During World War II, as part of the program of the search for strategically important minerals, he examined the Appalachians in Virginia and Tennessee and dealt with their tectonics.

He published a tectonic map of the USA (1944, 1969) and a geological map of the USA (1974) with Helen Beikman. In 2000, a relief map was created from this for the US Geological Survey (José F. Vigil, Richard J. Pike, David G. Howell, A tapestry of time and terrain).

He was awarded the US Department of the Interior's Distinguished Service Medal and the Penrose Medal in 1965 . In 1966 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • Evolution of North America, Princeton University Press 1959
  • Tectonic Map of the United States, US Geological Survey, Washington DC 1944, 2nd edition 1962 (scale 1: 7.5 million)
  • with Helen Beikman: Geologic map of the United States (exclusive Alaska and Hawaii), Reston, Virginia 1974, US Geological Survey (scale 1: 2.5 million)
  • Tectonic map of North America: Washington, DC, US Geological Survey 1969 (scale 1: 5 million)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online version of the geological map of the USA by King, Beikman, USGS
  2. ↑ A tapestry of time and terrain, USGS
personal data
SURNAME King, Philip Burke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Chester
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1987