Dorsa Geikie, a wrinkle ridge system on the Moon, and the mineral geikielite, a magnesium-titanium oxide, are both named after him, as is Geikie Gorge in the Napier Range in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia.
Concluding the various analyses, Teall and Pringle decided to name the new mineral Geikielite, taking the name after the Director General of the Geological Survey, Sir Archibald Geikie.
The gorge was named in honour of Sir Archibald Geikie, the Director General of Geological Survey for Great Britain and Ireland when it was given its European name in 1883.
Sir A. Geikie (Text Book of Geology, 4th ed., 1903) regards Neocomian as synonymous with Lower Cretaceous, and he, like Renevier, closes this portion of the system at the top of the Lower Greensand (Aptian).
It is recorded by Sir Archibald Geikie that he was christened Peter after his father and grandfather, and at first wrote his name Peter Lesley, Jr., but disliking the Christian appellation that had been given to him, he eventually transformed his signature by putting the J. of Junior at the beginning.
Sir A. Geikie has shown that the puy type of eruption was common in the British area in Carboniferous and Permian times, as abundantly attested in central Scotland by remains of the old volcanoes, now generally reduced by denudation to the mere neck, or volcanic vent, filled with tuff and agglomerate, or plugged with lava.
Geikie in 1884 coined the term thrust to describe this special set of faults.
Archibald Prize | John Archibald Wheeler | Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell | Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | Archibald MacLeish | Archibald Geikie | Archibald Menzies | Archibald McIndoe | Archibald Cox | Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford | Archibald Wavell | Archibald Leitch | Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus | Geikie Gorge | Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso | Archibald Prentice | Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton | Archibald Keightley Nicholson | Archibald Hill | Archibald Garrod | Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas | Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas | Archibald Douglas | Archibald Constable | Archibald Blair | Alan Archibald | Warren Archibald | Walter Geikie | Sir Archibald Lucas-Tooth, 2nd Baronet | Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet |
It was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, under Carsten Borchgrevink, who named the high land between these glaciers "Geikie Land", after Sir Archibald Geikie (for whom Geikie Glacier and Geikie Inlet were also named).