Roland Duer Irving
Roland Duer Irving | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 April 1847 |
| Died | May 30, 1888 (aged 41) |
| Alma mater | Columbia College School of Mines |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geology |
Roland Duer Irving (April 27, 1847 – May 30, 1888)[1] was an American geologist. He was born in New York city and graduated from Columbia College School of Mines in 1869 as a mining engineer.[2] In 1879, he received his PhD, also from Columbia.[2]
Soon after his graduation he became assistant on the Ohio geological survey, and in 1870 was elected professor of geology, mining, and metallurgy at the University of Wisconsin.[2] In 1879 the title of his chair was changed to that of geology and mineralogy. He became assistant state geologist of Wisconsin in 1877 [3]I have , and continued as such until 1879. From 1880 to 1882 he was one of the United States census experts,[2] and in 1882 was made geologist in charge of the Lake Superior division of the United States Geological Survey. His specialty was the micro-petrography of the fragmental rocks and crystalline schists, and pre-Cambrian stratigraphy and the genesis of some of the so-called crystalline rocks.[4] He is considered one of the pioneers of petrography in the United States.[5] Irving was eulogized by United States Geological Survey Director John Wesley Powell as part of the 1889 annual report to the Secretary of the Interior.[6]
He was the father of John Duer Irving, another noted geologist and editor of the journal Economic Geology from 1905 to 1918.
Publications
- "Geology of Central Wisconsin" Wisconsin Geological Survey (1877)
- "Geology of the Lake Superior Region" Wisconsin Geological Survey (1880)
- "Crystalline Rocks of the Wisconsin Valley" Wisconsin Geological Survey (1882) Geology of Wisconsin. Survey of 1873–1879, Volume IV. pp. 628–714
- "Mineralogy and Lithology of Wisconsin" Wisconsin Geological Survey (1888)
- "The Copper-Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior" US Geological Survey Monograph No. 5 (1888)
- "On Secondary Enlargements of Mineral Fragments in Certain Rocks" US Geological Survey Bulletin No. 8 (1884)
- "The Archaen Formations of the Northwestern States" US Geological Survey Bulletin No. 86 (1885)
- Observations on the Junction Between the Eastern Sandstone and the Keweenaw Series on Keweenaw ... with Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin. US Geological Survey Bulletin No. 23 (1885)
- "The Classification of the Early Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian Formations" US Geological Survey (1886)
- The Greenstone Schist Areas of the Menominee and Marquette Regions of Michigan: A Contribution ... with George Huntington Williams. US Geological Survey Bulletin No. 62 (1890)
References
- ^ "WER Image: Roland Duer Irving". digicoll.library.wisc.edu.
- ^ a b c d "Death of Prof. R. D. Irving". The New York Times. June 1, 1888. p. 8. Retrieved December 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ letter dated 4/18 1877
- ^ Geschwind, Carl-Henry (1994). "The Beginnings of Microscopic Petrography in the United States, 1870–1885". Earth Sciences History. 13 (1): 35–46. Bibcode:1994ESHis..13...35G. doi:10.17704/eshi.13.1.x3888321461141qu. JSTOR 24137323.
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- ^ Powell, John Wesley. "Ninth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1887–88". GovInfo. Government Printing Office. p. 38–42. Retrieved 13 June 2023.