biography
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| lived:
| (1785–1873)
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| biography:
| Geologist, born in Dent, Cumbria, NW England, UK. He studied mathematics at Cambridge, and became professor of geology there in 1818. In 1835 he calculated the stratigraphic succession of fossil-bearing rocks in North Wales, naming the oldest of them the Cambrian period. His best-known work was on British Palaeozoic Fossils (1854). With Sir Roderick Murchison he studied the Alps and the Lake District, and identified the Devonian system in SW England. He strongly opposed Darwin's Origin of Species. |
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