User:Trilotat/draft/Chester R. Longwell

Trilotat/draft/Chester R. Longwell

Chester R. Longwell (15 October 1887 – 15 December 1975) was an American geologist whose work clarified the geology of the Great Basin area. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army in World War I and taught at Yale.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

  • 1887: born in Spalding, Missouri, on 15 October 1887.
  • 1915: A.B., University of Missouri
  • 1916: A.M., University of Missouri
  • 1916-1920: geologist, Oklahoma Geological Survey
  • 1917-1919: serves in the U. S. Army
  • 1919: surveys the Virgin Mountains, Arizona
  • 1920: Ph.D. in geology, Yale University
  • 1920-1945: geologist, U. S. Geological Survey
  • 1920-1926: assistant professor, Yale University
  • 1926-1929: associate professor, Yale University
  • 1929-1956: professor of geology, Yale University
  • 1932: publishes his A Textbook of Geology, with four others
  • 1932: publishes his Walks and Rides in Central Connecticut and Massachusetts, with J. D. Dana and E. S. Dana
  • 1935: elected to the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1937-1940: chairman, division of geology and geography, National Research Council
  • 1938-1946: chairman, Geology Department, Yale University
  • 1940: honorary LL.D., University of Missouri
  • 1949: president, Geological Society of America
  • 1954: president, American Geological Institute
  • 1956: made professor emeritus, Yale University; joins Stanford University as research associate

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The following list of publications by Chester Ray Longwell is a chronological list of papers, articles, essays and books published by American geologist Chester Ray Longwell.

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  • Longwell, C.R. (1929). With Louis V. Pirsson. A Textbook of Geology, part I, Physical Geology, 3d rev. ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 488 pp.
  • Agar, W.M.; Flint, R.F.; Longwell, C.R. (1929), Geology from Original Sources, Henry Holt and Company, Wikidata Q94657084

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  • Longwell, C.R. (1 May 1950). "Tectonic Theory Viewed from the Basin Ranges". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 61 (5): 413–433. Bibcode:1950GSAB...61..413L. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1950)61[413:TTVFTB]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0016-7606. Wikidata Q57403875.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1950). Charles Hyde Warren (1876-1950). Am. Philos. Soc. Year Book, 1950:328-33.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1951). Memorial to Edward Bayer Branson, 1877-1950. Geol. Soc. Am. Proc, 1950:85-89. (Also in: Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull., 35: 1706-10.)
  • Longwell, C.R. (1951). The 1950 silly season. Science, 113:418.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1951). The problem of crustal deformation. Science, 114:2967(A).
  • Longwell, C.R. (1 May 1951). "Megabreccia developed downslope from large faults [Arizona-Nevada]". American Journal of Science. 249 (5): 343–355. Bibcode:1951AmJS..249..343L. doi:10.2475/AJS.249.5.343. ISSN 0002-9599. Wikidata Q57403864.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1 December 1951). "The so-called "Temple of Jupiter Serapis"". American Journal of Science. 249 (12): 929–931. ISSN 0002-9599. Wikidata Q94662590.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1952). Basin and range geology west of the St. George Basin, Utah. Guideb. Geol. Utah, 7:27-42.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1952). Structure of the Muddy Mountains, Nevada. Guideb. Geol. Utah, 7:109-14.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1952). The psychology of continental drift. Adv. Sci. 8:426-28.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1952). Is gravitational sliding important in orogeny? Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 33:336(A).
  • Longwell, C.R. (1952). Lower limit of the Cambrian in the Cordilleran region. J. Wash. Acad. Sci., 42:209-12.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1953). Was South America formerly joined to Africa? Geogr. Rev., 43: 279-81.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1954). Memorial to Herbert Ernest Gregory (1869-1952). Geol. Soc. Am. Proc, 1953:115-23.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1954). Review of the tectogene concept. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 65:1279(A).
  • Longwell, C.R. (27 August 1954). "Origin of the Word Climate". Science. 120 (3113): 355–355. Bibcode:1954Sci...120..355L. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.120.3113.355. ISSN 0036-8075. Wikidata Q70943781.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1954). History of the lower Colorado River and the Imperial depression. Calif. Div. Mines Bull., l70(5):53-56.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1954). The AGT and the AGI. J. Geol. Ed. 2:43-48.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1955). In support of the American Geological Institute. Geophysics, 20: 683-87.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1956). Arthur Keith, 1864-1944. In: Biographical Memoirs, 29:190-200. New York: Columbia Univ. Press for the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1957). The outlook for manpower in geoscience. Geotimes, l(9):6-7.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1958). Clarence Edward Dutton, 1841-1912. In: Biographical Memoirs, 32:132^15. New York: Columbia Univ. Press for the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Bowyer, B.; Pampeyan, E.H.; Longwell, C.R. (1958). "Geologic map of Clark County, Nevada". Miscellaneous Field Studies Map. United States Geological Survey. doi:10.3133/MF138. Wikidata Q57733741.
  • Longwell, C.R. (1958). My estimate of the continental drift concept. In: Continental Drift— A Symposium, pp. 1-12. Univ. of Tasmania Geology Dept., Symposium 2.

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Category:Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni Category:American geologists Category:Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty