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7 unusual facts about Adam Sedgwick


Ebenezer Emmons

Nevertheless, the Taconic fauna of Emmons proved to include only the lower part of Sedgwick's Cambrian.

Garsdale

The Sedgwick Trail, named after the well-known geologist Adam Sedgwick runs along the Clough from Danny Bridge and highlights rock features along the Dent Fault.

Genesis flood narrative

His views were supported by other English clergymen and naturalists at the time, including the influential Adam Sedgwick, but by 1830 Sedgwick considered that the evidence only showed local floods.

Llandovery Group

The Tarannon shales, grey and blue slates, designated by Adam Sedgwick the Paste Rock, is traceable from Conwy into Carmarthenshire; in Ceredigion, there are gritty beds; and in the neighbourhood of Builth, soft dark shales.

Sedgwickian

Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), one of the founders of modern geology

St John the Evangelist's Church, Cowgill

The foundation stone was laid on 30 June 1837 by Adam Sedgwick, Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.

Young Earth creationism

By this time, the Reverends William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick and other early geologists had abandoned their earlier ideas of catastrophism related to a Biblical flood and confined their explanations to local floods.


Édouard de Verneuil

He next investigated the Devonian rocks and fossils of the Bas-Boulonnais; and in 1839 accompanied Sedgwick and Murchison in a study of the older Palaeozoic rocks of the Rhenish provinces and Belgium, the palaeontological results being communicated to the Geological Society of London in conjunction with the Vicomte d'Archiac.

Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

In 1856, the botanist George Bentham (who lived at Pontrilas) was an honorary member, as were the geologists the Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, William Henry Fitton, Leonard Horner, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Murchison, Prof. John Phillips, and the Rev. Prof. Adam Sedgwick, the botanist John Lindley, the naturalist Sir William Jardine, and the zoologist Prof. Robert E. Grant.


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