George Barrow (geologist)
George Barrow (11 December 1853 – 23 July 1932) was a British geologist.[1]
Barrow was born in St George Hanover Square, London,[2] the fifth of eight children born to John George Barrow, a general practitioner at the Royal College of Surgeons, and his wife, Eleanor Barrow.[1]
Barrow matriculated at London University in 1871, holding a Turner scholarship. Admitted to
Pentti Eskola, who introduced the concept of metamorphic facies. Barrow was awarded the Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall in 1912.[1]
He died in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire.[5]
The Barrow Award of the
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland
for contributions to metamorphic geology is named in his honour.
References
- ^ a b c Oldroyd, David. "Barrow, George (1853–1932), geologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ 1861 England Census
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- ^ Barrow, George (1912). The geology of the country around Ivybridge and Modbury: with chapter on altered rocks by G. Barrow.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
Selected publications
- Barrow, George (1888). The geology of North Cleveland. (Explanation of quarter-sheets 104 S. W. S. E., new series, sheets 34, 35). Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Barrow, George (1904). "On the Moine Gneisses of the East-Central Highlands and their Position in the Highland Sequence". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 60 (1–4): 400–449. S2CID 130627328.
- Barrow, George; Flett, John S. (1906). The geology of the Isles of Scilly (Explanation of Sheets 357 and 360). Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Barrow, George; Wills, L.J. (1913). Records of London wells. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
- Barrow, George (1919). The geology of the country around Lichfield, including the northern parts of the South Staffordshire and Warwickshire coalfields (Explanation of Sheet 154). Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
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