Nelson Horatio Darton
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US Geological Survey |
Nelson Horatio Darton (December 17, 1865 – February 28, 1948) was a
U.S. Geological Survey
in 1886.
Darton was an expert at geological photography, a noted
Penrose Medal in 1940. He also made some important paleontological
discoveries.
He retired in 1936 at the age of 71 but was allowed to keep his office at the
Washington DC area. He produced more than 200 publications and received many honors and awards. Three weeks before he died in 1948, he was still coming daily to the USGS and gave a lecture to the Geological Society of Washington
on the geology of the DC area.
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Publications
- Preliminary report on the geology and underground water resources of the central Great Plains U.S. Geological SurveyProfessional Paper 32(1905)
- Geology of the Owl Creek Mountains, with notes on resources of adjoining regions in the ceded portion of the Shoshone Indian Reservation, Wyoming United States 59th Congress, Senate Document no. 219, (1906)
- Description of Bald Mountain and Dayton quadrangles, Wyoming U.S. Geological SurveyGeologic Atlas, folio 141 (1906)
- Description of Cloud Peak and Fort McKinney quadrangles, Wyoming U.S. Geological SurveyGeologic Atlas, folio 142 (1906)
- Geology of the Bighorn Mountains U.S. Geological SurveyProfessional Paper 51 (1906)
- Geology and underground waters of the Arkansas Valley in eastern Colorado U.S. Geological SurveyProfessional Paper 52 (1906)
- Paleozoic and Mesozoic of central Wyoming:. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 19, p. 403–470 (1908)
- Geology and water resources of the northern portion of the Black Hills and adjoining regions in South Dakota and Wyoming U.S. Geological SurveyProfessional Paper 65 (1909)
- Description of the Laramie and Sherman quadrangles, Wyoming with E. Blackwelder, and C.E. Siebenthal U.S. Geological SurveyGeologic Atlas, folio 173 (1910)
- Description of the central Black Hills, South Dakota with S. Paige U.S. Geological SurveyGeologic Atlas, folio 219 (1925)
- Story of the Grand Canyon: How It Was Made, pamphlet, published by Fred Harvey, 1917
References
- ^ King, P.B., Memorial to Nelson Horatio Darton (1865-1948), Geological Society of America Proceedings, 145-170. 1949
- ^ Nelson Horatio Darton biography at the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program website
- ^ "The Utah Juniper Project: Repeat Ground Photography". Archived from the original on 2005-03-06. Retrieved 2005-05-24. Repeat Historical Photography of Twentieth Century Vegetation Change in Wyoming and Montana
External links
- Works by Nelson Horatio Darton at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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