William Joscelyn Arkell
William Joscelyn Arkell (born June 9, 1904 in Highworth , Wiltshire , † April 18, 1958 in Cambridge ) was a British geologist who was in his time in Great Britain as a leading authority on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Jurassic .
Life
Arkell studied at Oxford University with a degree in geology in 1925. There he began to study fossils from the Jurassic, which was also the subject of his 1928 dissertation. During his time as a PhD student at Oxford, he was also involved in several archaeological excavations from the Paleolithic in the Nile Valley in Egypt by the University of Chicago . In 1927 he became a lecturer at New College, Oxford and in 1929 Senior Research Fellow at New College. He later went to Trinity College , Cambridge.
He also looked at the use of Jurassic limestones as a building material in Oxford and published a book on it in 1947. Another focus was the tectonics of Dorset (Weymouth, Portland, Isle of Purbeck). After the Second World War he was a sought-after expert in the oil industry for Jurassic key fossils (ammonites) and traveled extensively in the Middle East. He is the first to describe the Jurassic ammonite Perisphinctes boweni Arkell in 1935, which he named after the English chemist Edmund John Bowen .
In 1944 he received the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences , in 1949 the Lyell Medal and in 1953 the Leopold von Buch plaque . In 1947 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1934 he received an honorary doctorate (D. Sc.) From Oxford. The Arkell Cirque , a mountain basin in Antarctica is named after him.
Fonts
- The Jurassic system of Great Britain . Oxford University Press, 1933.
- Jurassic Geology of the World . Oliver and Boyd, 1956.
- with SI Tomkeiff: English Rock Terms . Oxford University Press, 1952.
- Oxford Stone . Faber and Faber, 1947.
literature
- LR Cox: Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society . tape 4 , November 1, 1958, p. 1-14 , doi : 10.1098 / rsbm.1958.0001 .
Web links
- Photo. Trinity College Chapel
- William J. Arkell. Oxford Geology Group
Individual evidence
- ↑ This resulted in the publication Arkell, KS Sanford Paleolithic Man and the Nile-Faiyum Divide. A Study of the Region During Pliocene and Pleistocene Times , University of Chicago Press, 1927
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arkell, William Joscelyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Highworth , Wiltshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1958 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |