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Journal Article
Published: 01 May 2009
Journal of Paleontology (2009) 83 (3): 484–488.
...William I. Ausich Abstract The systematic position of taxa from the work of Gerard Troost has been confused and many have not been properly credited. Complete synonymy listings of Troost names indicate that the author and date of many names need revision, including several taxa that can finally...
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<span class="search-highlight">Gerard</span> <span class="search-highlight">Troost</span>. Source: Box 11, Folder 32, Merrill Collection (RU 7177), Smi...
Published: 01 April 2005
Figure 2. Gerard Troost. Source: Box 11, Folder 32, Merrill Collection (RU 7177), Smithsonian Archives. It is used as the Frontispiece in Wood’s Critical Summary without attribution .
Journal Article
Published: 01 April 2005
Earth Sciences History (2005) 24 (1): 15–34.
...Figure 2. Gerard Troost. Source: Box 11, Folder 32, Merrill Collection (RU 7177), Smithsonian Archives. It is used as the Frontispiece in Wood’s Critical Summary without attribution . ...
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Published: 10 December 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.0051(01)
EISBN: 9780813756516
... in New Harmony in 1828, this interaction may have had a lasting impact on David Dale’s passion for geology ( Straw and Doss, 2008 ). Probably more significantly, geologist Gerard Troost and naturalists Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778–1846) and Thomas Say (1787–1834) educated Owen on the importance...
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Series: Society of Economic Geologists Guidebook Series
Published: 01 January 1992
DOI: 10.5382/GB.14.Ch1
EISBN: 9781934969670
... Abstract The mining of zinc in Tennessee dates back to 1854 although the presence of zinc minerals had been reported as early as 1844 by Gerard Troost, the first State Geologist. When the Mossy Creek open pit mine, in what is now Jefferson City, Jefferson County, was opened, it became the first...
Series: Society of Economic Geologists Guidebook Series
Published: 01 January 1992
DOI: 10.5382/GB.14.Ch2
EISBN: 9781934969670
... Abstract The mining of zinc in Tennessee dates back to 1854 although the presence of zinc minerals had been reported as early as 1844 by Gerard Troost, the first State Geologist. When the Mossy Creek open pit mine, in what is now Jefferson City, Jefferson County, was opened, it became the first...
Series: Society of Economic Geologists Guidebook Series
Published: 01 January 1992
DOI: 10.5382/GB.14
EISBN: 9781934969670
Journal Article
Published: 01 April 1985
Earth Sciences History (1985) 4 (1): 54–58.
...Edward T. Luther ABSTRACT The Tennessee Division of Geology has a close, long-term relationship with the educational establishment in Tennessee that has changed in nature over the years but remains strong. Gerard Troost, the first State Geologist, was a college professor, as was his successor...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 April 2005
Earth Sciences History (2005) 24 (1): 1–4.
... of Canada; a conflict that pitted the geologist J.W. Dawson against the botanist William Carruthers in the 1870s. Julie Newell sheds light on the publication history of Gerard Troost’s manuscript monograph on fossil crinoids from Tennessee. Continuing with the echinoderm theme, William Ausich and Gary Lane...
Journal Article
Published: 01 April 1985
Earth Sciences History (1985) 4 (1): 3–9.
.... The southern states were represented during this period by Olmsted and later Elisha Mitchell in North Carolina, Vanuxem in South Carolina, Gerard Troost of the University of Nashville in Tennessee, William B. Rogers of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and Dr. John R. Cotting, a schoolmaster...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 April 1985
Earth Sciences History (1985) 4 (1): 10–16.
... entered medical school without the desire to prepare for a career in scholarship. Currey had a different orientation. He was an emerging scholar by the time he began medical school. A graduate of the University of Nashville, and one of Gerard Troost’s apprentices in field geology, 20 Currey went...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 October 1982
Earth Sciences History (1982) 1 (1): 58–63.
... institutional connections. Editor Corgan appraises Gerard Troost’s influence on geological fieldwork. He shows how the Netherlands-born Troost, upon moving to America in 1810, brought with him a European tradition of field studies and a professional expertise sharpened by personal associations with such eminent...
Journal Article
Published: 01 October 1990
Earth Sciences History (1990) 9 (2): 118–125.
... observations in an 1847 paper on the “parallelism of paleozoic deposits in America with those of Europe.” Verneuil acknowledged what he called the “irreproachable” work of Timothy A. Conrad, David Dale Owen, the Rogers brothers, Gerard Troost, C. T. Jackson, and the New York geologists for their analyses...
Journal Article
Published: 11 October 2016
Journal of Paleontology (2016) 90 (6): 1148–1159.
... distribution, taphonomy, and paleoecology of Mississippian crinoid faunas (early Viséan; late Osagean). The first descriptions of Fort Payne Formation crinoids were in the pioneering works of Gerard Troost ( 1849 , 1850a , 1850b ; see Ausich, 2009 ) and James Hall ( 1858 , 1859 ). With the exception...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 April 1985
Earth Sciences History (1985) 4 (1): 59–62.
... of the founders of the school. Few universities taught geology in the first half of the nineteenth century. The first chair of geology at a state-supported school in the United States had been established, seven years earlier, at South Carolina College, 2 and Gerard Troost held a Professorship in Geology...
Journal Article
Published: 01 April 1996
Earth Sciences History (1996) 15 (1): 76–95.
... (1743–1822): Travaux du Comité Français D’Histoire de la géologie (COFRHIGéO), 3é serié, T. VIII, p. 2740. Troost, Gerard, 1995, The beginning of geological exploration in northern Alabama: Gerard Troost’s travels in 1834. Edited by James X. Corgan and Michael A. Gibson: Alabama Rev. , v. 48, p...
Journal Article
Published: 01 October 1999
Earth Sciences History (1999) 18 (2): 198–245.
... questions. As Burke correctly observed, “almost every contemporary American naturalist responded and aided Cleaveland in the project.” 73 Cleaveland’s forthcoming second edition and Silliman’s journal were the topic of Gerard Troost’s 16 January 1821 letter, from Baltimore. Troost (1776-1850) began...
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Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 October 1961
AAPG Bulletin (1961) 45 (10): 1625–1633.
... of American geology (1818) and made the first areal geologic report (1824) along the scarcely wet Erie Canal. Edward Hitchcock was then industriously at work in Massachusetts, Gerard Troost in Tennessee, and Elisha Mitchell in North Carolina, while Lardner Vanuxem and Dr. S. G. Morton had discovered...
Series: GSA Field Guide
Published: 01 January 2008
DOI: 10.1130/2008.fld012(03)
EISBN: 9780813756127
... and Gerard Troost, Lesueur and Maclure had traveled together around the eastern U.S. (William Maclure, in Kimberling, 2007 ). Upon his return from that expedition, Maclure single-handedly rewrote the geology of the area and revised his publications on the geology of the United States. His Essay...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 October 1982
Earth Sciences History (1982) 1 (1): 48–57.
... succeeded in convincing Amos Eaton in 1833 of the value of fossils as stratigraphic indices. More than that, Morton directed and supported the early work on Tertiary faunas of the Atlantic Coast by his protege Timothy Conrad, and he advised James Hall, Samuel Hildreth, Edward Hitchcock, Gerard Troost...
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