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Adam Sedgwick (/ ˈ s ɛ dʒ w ɪ k /; 22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale.
Apr 8, 2024 · Adam Sedgwick (born March 22, 1785, Dent, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Jan. 27, 1873, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was an English geologist who first applied the name Cambrian to the geologic period of time, now dated at 570 to 505 million years ago.
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Adam Sedgwick. Two undated fragments of his public lecture notes. Adam Sedgwick was born on March 22, 1785, the third of seven chidren of an Anglican vicar, in Dent, Yorkshire, England. His home life was happy; like so many geologists, young Adam spent time rambling through the countryside, looking at and collecting rocks and fossils.
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May 14, 2018 · The English geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was the founder of the Cambrian system, the first period of the Paleozoic geologic era. Adam Sedgwick was born on March 22, 1785, at Dent in his ancestral region of the Yorkshire Dales.
Apr 8, 2024 · Adam Sedgwick was an English zoologist who is best known for his researches on the wormlike organism Peripatus, which he recognized as the zoologically important connecting link between the Annelida, or segmented worms, and the Arthropoda, such as crabs, spiders, and insects.
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22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873. Image: Adam Sedgwick by Thomas Phillips, R.A. Adam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology. He is known particularly for his work on classifying rocks from the Devonian and Cambrian eras, and his work was central to developing understanding of the geological time-line.
Adam Sedgwick, a pioneer of geology and one of Britain s most distinguished geologists, was born in March 1785 in Dent which in 1974 was incorporated in the newly formed administrative county of Cumbria. It is, however, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and was traditionally part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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