For the socialist activist, newspaper editor and film producer, see Charles Lapworth (journalist).
Charles Lapworth
Born
(1842-09-20)20 September 1842
Faringdon, Berkshire, England
Died
13 March 1920(1920-03-13) (aged 77)
Birmingham, England
Awards
Bigsby Medal (1887) Royal Medal (1891) Wollaston Medal (1899)
Charles Lapworth FRS FGS (20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920) was a headteacher and an English geologist[1] who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.
^"Lapworth, Charles". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1020.
CharlesLapworth FRS FGS (20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920) was a headteacher and an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils...
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south Birmingham, England. The museum is named after the geologist CharlesLapworth, its origins dating back to 1880. It reopened in 2016 following a £2...
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Marcel Alexandre Bertrand in the Alps working on the Glarus Thrust; CharlesLapworth, Ben Peach and John Horne working on parts of the Moine Thrust in the...
Birmingham operates the Lapworth Museum of Geology in the Aston Webb Building in Edgbaston. It is named after CharlesLapworth, a geologist who worked...
both Sedgwick and Murchison. It was not resolved until 1879, when CharlesLapworth proposed the disputed strata belong to its own system, which he named...
Richards rejected the idea. In 1879 the pioneering English geologist CharlesLapworth named the Ordovician geological period after the Ordovices because...
ideas; in the 1880s these were superseded by the correct theory of CharlesLapworth, which was corroborated by Benjamin Peach and John Horne. Their subsequent...
furious disagreements that ended the friendship. The English geologist CharlesLapworth resolved the conflict by defining a new Ordovician system including...
Murchison, Charles Lyell, Henry Thomas De la Beche, Thomas Henry Huxley, Joseph Prestwich, Archibald Geikie, Jethro Teall, and CharlesLapworth. Later well-known...
other parties to keep Labour out, and by his references to the fate of Charles I. Despite his seniority, Lansbury was offered only a junior non-cabinet...
Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay by Eliot Stannard Max Ferner Story by CharlesLapworth Produced by Michael Balcon Starring Nita Naldi Bernhard Goetzke Malcolm...
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Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (born 1839). March 13 – CharlesLapworth, English geologist (born 1842). March 26 – William Chester Minor, American...
later, nappe structure was investigated in northwestern Scotland by CharlesLapworth. Lugeon later transferred the ideas of nappes to the Carpathians. Nappe...
1787–1857 James Hutton 1726–1797 the "Father of modern geology" CharlesLapworth 1842–1920 Sir Charles Lyell 1797–1875 Gideon Mantell 1790–1852 Sir Roderick Murchison...
gneiss at the coastal region of northwest Scotland. From about 1869, CharlesLapworth, then a schoolteacher, had been quietly surveying the geology of the...
Murchison and Archibald Geikie on the one hand and James Nicol and CharlesLapworth on the other. Murchison and Geikie believed the sequence was wrong...
developed in Moffatdale; indeed the three typical sections chosen by CharlesLapworth to illustrate his three great groups: (1) the Glenkill shales (Upper...