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Get to Know Your Geoscience
Florence Bascom with compasses, ca. 1910. Sophi Smith Bob Garrels conducting fieldwork in the late 1930s or early
Collection, Smith College. 1940s. Photo courtesy Cynthia Garrels.
GSA Today’s Rock Stars series was developed by the GSA History career, to alert the public to the dual dangers of burgeoning popu-
of Geology Division (now the History and Philosophy of Geology lation and steadily decreasing natural resources, and you have the
Division), with the first series publication in 1995. Over the years, peripatetic Preston Cloud (1912–1991).”
only 36 articles have appeared in print. We’d like to see more.
All articles are submitted to and vetted by the Division. Find out Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871–1957): Eclectic Theoretician of
how you can contribute to this series at www.geosociety.org/ the Earth, by James H. Natland, Feb. 2006, p. 24–26. “In his ear-
RockStarGuide. The following list and highlights are in order by liest book, he presented what he called an ‘eclectic theory’ of vol-
Rock Star last name. Read the complete articles at www.geosociety canic action and magmatic differentiation, and thus I describe him
.org/gsatoday/RockStars.htm. as an ‘eclectic theoretician of the Earth.’”
A Life of Firsts: Florence Bascom, by Jill S. Schneiderman, July James Dwight Dana (1813–1895): Mineralogist, Zoologist,
1997, p. 8–9. “Heeding her father’s suggestion that she ‘make Geologist, Explorer, by James H. Natland, Feb. 2003, p. 20–21.
work an immediate joy,’ geology, education, and Bryn Mawr were “To many of his contemporaries, James Dwight Dana was the
her life.” foremost American geologist of the nineteenth century.”
Norman L. Bowen: The Experimental Approach to Petrology, Darwin the Geologist, by Léo F. Laporte, Dec. 1996, p. 8–10.
by H.S. Yoder Jr., May 1998, p. 10–11. “The greatest petrologist of “Today, few people are aware that Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
the 20th century is clearly Norman Levi Bowen (1887–1956).” was an accomplished geologist before becoming renowned as a
biologist with On the Origin of Species in 1859.”
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843–1928), by Robert H. Dott
Jr., Oct. 2006, p. 30–31. “ ‘Born on a moraine,’ was how George Mercer Dawson: Pioneer Explorer of Western
America’s pioneer glacial geologist in the late nineteenth century, Canada, by Charles H. Smith, Aug. 2002, p. 16–17. “George
T.C. Chamberlin, described himself.” Mercer Dawson (1849–1901) rendered an extraordinary service in
exploring the geology and resources of western Canada—on the
Preston Cloud: Peripatetic Paleontologist, by J. Thomas Dutro prairies, in the foothills, and in the mountains of British Columbia
Jr., Aug. 1999, p. 16–17. “Add a mission, in the waning stages of a and the Yukon.”
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