scholarly journals Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, 1883-1969

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 543-562
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Economic Assessment ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Geological Mapping ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The Government

Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia enjoyed the honour of being the first geologist to be made a National Professor by the Government of India. He had been successively: Professor of Geology at Jammu in Kashmir, Officiating Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Government Mineralogist of Ceylon, Mineral Adviser to the Government of India, Director of the Indian Bureau of Mines, and, from 1949 until his death on 15 June 1969 at New Delhi, Geological Adviser to the Indian Atomic Energy Commission. During the concerted attack by the Geological Survey of India in the 1920s and 1930s on the unravelling (by geological mapping) of the geotectonics of the Himalayas, Wadia’s interpretation of the detailed stratigraphy and geological structure of the western part of that formidable mountain range was of outstanding value. He also made substantial contributions to the economic assessment of the geology of Ceylon and to the understanding of that country’s geomorphology.

Walcot Gibson 1864-1941

1943 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 271-275
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Geological Mapping ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Intimate Contact ◽  
The North ◽  
South Wales ◽  
New Information ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
The One

Walcot Gibson was born at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, on 24 August 1864. His father was a bank manager from the north country and his mother was Cornish, and they had three sons and one daughter. Gibson was educated at the Bromsgrove School and about 1882 went to Mason College, Birmingham, now the University of Birmingham. Charles Lapworth who had distinguished himself by his great researches in the south of Scotland had just been appointed to the chair of Geology at Mason College and thirty-one years later (1913) he records that Gibson was his first geological pupil. His interest in geology and geological mapping was developed by intimate contact with Lapworth and was sustained by a coterie of ardent amateur geologists, among them Joseph Landon, Fred Cullis and C. J. Gilbert. This period clearly determined Gibson’s choice of a career. After a course at the Royal College of Science he set out in 1889 on Lapworth’s advice for South Africa where he was engaged for two years on mineral surveys in the Rand goldfields and elsewhere. From there he moved to East Africa where he was engaged for another two years on mineral surveys for the East Africa Company. He returned to this country an experienced geologist and surveyor and in 1893 he joined H.M. Geological Survey in which service he remained for thirty-two years until his retirement in 1925. This was an important period in the history of the Geological Survey for owing to strong representations that the old Survey had become obsolete both in topography and geology, the House of Commons in 1891 sanctioned a resurvey of the great South Wales Coalfield on the scale of six inches to the mile. The first mapping of that field initiated by Logan and de la Beche was on the one-inch scale and was completed about 1845, the year in which the Geological Survey was transferred from the Board of Ordnance. The enormous developments which had taken place since the original survey had far outstripped the knowledge of the geological structure of the field and new information had become urgently necessary.

scholarly journals Account of the Progress of the Geological Survey in Scotland, illustrated by Maps and Sections

1866 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 355-364
Author(s):  
Archibald Geikie
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Small Degree ◽  
Geological Mapping ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
The United Kingdom

The object of the Geological Survey is to ascertain in detail the geological structure of the United Kingdom, and to publish the results in maps, sections, and descriptive memoirs. The Ordnance maps form the groundwork on which these geological investigations proceed; and as no district is examined until these maps are ready, the progress of the Geological Survey is guided in no small degree by that of the Ordnance engineers. In Scotland, the geological mapping has hitherto been conducted wholly upon the county maps on the scale of six inches to a mile, and the advantages of so large a scale are such, that although the work is finally reduced and published on the scale of one inch to a mile, no county is surveyed until its six-inch maps are ready for use.

Two Hundred Years of Geological Mapping in Belgium, From D'omalius D'halloy to the Belgian Federal State

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Groessens ◽  
Marie-Claire Dyck
Keyword(s):  
Geological Structure ◽  
Geological Mapping ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
French Empire ◽  
Geological Maps ◽  
Geological Map

The career of Jean-Baptiste-Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy (1783-1875), commencing with brilliant scientific activities and proceeding to his attainment of the highest administrative and political positions, in itself demonstrates that he was an exceptional individual. His scientific career started with a long voyage through the French Empire and adjacent regions, during which he gained an understanding of the geological structure of most of Europe. The geological map he compiled based on his travel notes formed the basis of all future geological maps in the areas that he covered. After the independence of Belgium in 1830, André Dumont was made responsible for the mapping of the whole country, resulting in the publication of a 9-sheet map of Belgium in 1853 on a scale of 1:160.000. In 1878, Belgium decided to produce a more detailed map on the scale of 1:20.000, entrusting the work to Edouard Dupont., but as this appointment was controversial and the mapping at this scale was abandoned and than, the newly created Geological Survey of Belgium published a new 226-sheet map on a scale of 1:40.000. Starting from 1993, after the federalisation of the country, new geological maps of the regional states are mapped and produced.

scholarly journals V. On the Geological Structure of the District around Kingswood Hill, near Bristol; with especial reference to the supposed Development of Millstone-grit in that Neighbourhood

1865 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 110-113
Author(s):  
Handel Cossham
Keyword(s):  
Geological Structure ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
The South ◽  
Especial Reference ◽  
Northern Portion ◽  
Geological Map ◽  
The Government ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Coal Fields

I have for some years had serious doubts as to the correctness of the Map of the Geological Survey so for as it relatesto the supposed presence of Millstone-grit in the northern portion of the Bristol Coal-field in the neighbourhood of Kingswood Hill; and in a foot-note to a most valuable lecture delivered by my friend Mr. Robert Etheridge, F.G.S. (of the RoyalSchool of Mines) at the Bristol Mining School in 1857, and published in a volume of Lectures issued by that Institution, Ihad, so long ago as that year, expressed doubts as to the existence of Millstone-grit at the surface near kingswood. Sincethen I have had much greater opportunities of investigating the matter, having taken, with my partners, a large tract of mineral property in that district; and the results of those investigations thoroughly confirm the doubts I had previously entertained, and in fact fully satisfy my mind that what is shown as Millstone-grit on the Government Geological Map, as also on the valuable map lately published by Mr. William Sanders, F.R.S., of Bristol, is really nothing more than one of thesandstones (the ‘Holmes Rock’) so common in the Coal-measures proper, and developed on a grand scale in the Pennant-grit dividing the Upper and Lower Coal-series of all the South-western Coal-fields.

scholarly journals Co-operation with the Geological Survey Department of Ghana

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 93-96
Author(s):  
Feiko Kalsbeek ◽  
Bjørn Hermansen ◽  
Christian Knudsen ◽  
Leif Thorning ◽  
Marianne Thorsen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Servant ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Geological Mapping ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Data Handling ◽  
Vision Statements ◽  
Geological Maps ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government

Between October 2001 and the end of 2003 there was a close co-operation between the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and the Geological Survey Department of Ghana (GSD), as part of a project to enhance GSD’s institutional capabilities and effectiveness, mainly in the fields of management, geological mapping, map production and data handling. During this period a team of geologists, GIS (Geographic Information System) and database experts as well as administrative staff from GEUS have visited GSD, and GSD officers have visited GEUS in Copenhagen. The main obstacles to GSD becoming an effective organisation are its status as a department under the Ghana Ministry of Mines, insufficient funding by the government, and poor remuneration of its professional staff. To overcome these obstacles, attempts are being made to change the status of GSD from a ‘civil servant organisation’ into a semiautonomous institution, which will permit the Survey to generate funding for its core activities by providing services to outside organisations, and pay better salaries to its personnel. Despite many problems, geological mapping has been resumed and three new geological maps have been produced by GSD during the project and stored in GIS format. A mapping manual has been prepared, and the structure and ‘Mission and Vision Statements’ for the Survey have been revised.

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