Raymond Cecil Moore

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Raymond Cecil Moore (born February 20, 1892 in Roslyn , Washington , † April 16, 1974 in Lawrence , Kansas ) was an American geologist , paleontologist and stratigraph , who, among other things, due to his significant contribution to the standard work for paleontology , the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology , became known.

Life

Moore grew up as the eldest of four children of Irish-born Baptist preacher Bernard Harding Moore and his wife Winifred Denney in the Wenatchee Mountains . He graduated from Denison University in Ohio with a bachelor's degree in 1912 , then went to the University of Chicago and received a doctoral degree summa cum laude in 1916 for his work on the early Mississippian from Missouri . A newly qualified PhD, he became an assistant professor of geology at the University of Kansas and also a state geologist and director of the Kansas State Geological Service, a position he held until 1954. At the University of Kansas he was chairman of the geological faculty three times between 1920 and 1954, and he retired in 1962.

In 1943, at the age of 51, he enlisted for active military service in World War II and served as an advisor to General Douglas MacArthur in Japan. Moore was married twice and had one daughter.

Act

During his time as a state geologist, Moore began with the fine stratigraphic recording of rock layers from the Pennsylvania to Permian , which could be traced over long distances in the central United States , and developed theories about recurring (cyclic) sedimentation, the development of sedimentation sequences ( sequence stratigraphy ) and the importance of fossil communities in understanding stratigraphic sequences. The results of this work flowed into the publications in the context of the geological survey of Kansas, which came out in 1937. Known for his organizational skills, Moore got his colleagues at the Kansas State Geological Service to use mandatory, state-wide rules for naming stratigraphic units. His proposal for the stratigraphic subdivision of the rocks of Kansas still stands today.

While working with stratigraphic questions and studying the facies of rocks, Morre recognized the importance of fossil communities for the interpretation of rock sequences. He himself dealt with fossil corals, gastropods and bryozoa , but especially crinoids . In 1952 he edited the standard work Invertebrate Fossils , which is still used today, with CG Lalicker and AG Fischer . Since 1948 he has prepared the publication of the Treatise on invertebrate paleontology , which will appear from 1953 and which has since been published in 50 volumes and has become the most important directory in the field of paleontology of invertebrates .

Honors

In 1952 Moore was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1958 he was President of the Geological Society of America . In 1968 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London , and in 1970 the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences .

He has received other awards from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences , the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Paleontological Society , the Académie Royale de Belgique and the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). The Raymond C. Moore Memorial Grant from the AAPG and the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Paleontology from the SEPM are named after Moore . In 1965 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society .

Works

  • Historical Geology , McGraw Hill 1933.
  • 1952 with CG Lalicker, A. Fischer: Invertebrate Fossils. McGraw Hill, ISBN 978-0070430204 .
  • from 1953: Initiator and editor of the Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. The Geological Society of America, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.

literature

  • Daniel F. Merriam : Rock Stars - Raymond Cecil Moore: A Great 20th Century Geological Synthesizer . In: GSA Today . August 2003, p. 16–18 (English, online [PDF; 200 kB ; accessed on May 9, 2019]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wollaston Medal . The Geological Society of London , archived from the original on August 19, 2010 ; accessed on January 23, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).
  2. ^ NAS Award in the Evolution of Earth and Life . National Academy of Sciences , 2019, accessed May 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ Raymond C. Moore . AAPG Foundation , archived from the original on September 6, 2015 ; accessed on February 2, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).
  4. ^ SEPM Awards - Raymond C. Moore Medal for Paleontology . Society for Sedimentary Geology , 2017, archived from the original on July 4, 2017 ; accessed on May 9, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
personal data
SURNAME Moore, Raymond Cecil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moore, Raymond C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist, paleontologist, and stratigraph
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Roslyn , Washington
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1974
Place of death Lawrence , Kansas