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	SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON - LoveToKnow Article on SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Young Murchison left the Highlands when three years old, and at the age of seven was sent to the grammar school of Durham, where he remained for six years.
		It was in the year 1831 that Murchison found the field in which the chief work of his life was to be accomplished.
		One of the closing public acts of Murchisons life was the founding of a chair of geology and mineralogy in the university of Edinburgh, for whith he gave the sum of 6000, an annual sum of 200 being likewise provided by a vote in parliament for the endowment of the professorship.
	23.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MU/MURCHISON_SIR_RODERICK_IMPEY.htm (1385 words)

	Murchison (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murchison is a lunar crater on the north edge of the Sinus Medii.
		Murchison lies astride the lunar zenith line; the starting longitude of the selenographic coordinate system.
		The wall of Murchison crater is heavily worn and has completely disappeared in a wide gap to the southeast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murchison_(crater) (222 words)

	Roderick Murchison -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (February 19, 1792 –; October 22, 1871), was a powerful (The dialect of English used in Scotland) Scottish (A specialist in geology) geologist who first described and investigated the (From 425 million to 405 million years ago; first air-breathing animals) Silurian era.
		Soon afterwards Murchison projected an important geological campaign in (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia with the view of extending to that part of the Continent the classification he had succeeded in elaborating for the older rocks of western Europe.
		One of the closing public acts of Murchison’s life was the founding of a chair of geology and mineralogy in the (Click link for more info and facts about university of Edinburgh) university of Edinburgh.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/roderick_murchison.htm (844 words)

	CAMBRIAN SYSTEM - LoveToKnow Article on CAMBRIAN SYSTEM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1831 Adam Sedgwick and Sir Roderick I. Murchison began the herculean task of studying and sub-dividing this series of rocks as it occurs in Wales and the bordering counties of England.
		Murchison naturally 4nade the most of the fossils collected, and was soon able to show that the transition series could be recognized by them, just as younger formations had fossils peculiar to themselves; as he zealously worked on he followed the fossiliferous rocks further afield and continually lower in the series.
		Murchison published his Silurian system in 1839, wherein he recognized the Cambrian to include the barren slates and grits of Harlech, Llanberis and the Long Mynd.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAMBRIAN_SYSTEM.htm (4283 words)

	Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1846 he was knighted, and in 1855 he was appointed director-general of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.
		Murchison endowed a chair of geology and mineralogy at the Univ. of Edinburgh.
		He revised and modified the material of his earlier work in Siluria (1854) and collaborated on the Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains (1845).
	www.bartleby.com /65/mu/Murchiso.html (219 words)

	Murchison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Murchison is the name of a town on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.
		Murchison, Victoria is a small rural village located on the Goulburn River in Victoria, Australia.
		Murchison Mountains, a range of mountains in the South Island of New Zealand.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Murchison.htm (238 words)

	Chapter 1.4: Discovery as Negotiation: The Great Devonian Controversy
		Roderick Murchison was a gentleman who had taken up geology because it afforded him a respectable hobby that could be combined with the pleasure he took in hunting.
		Murchison referred to these groups of strata as systems because he was convinced that they were general and could be found anywhere in the world where erosion, eruption or other local disruptions had not erased them.
		Murchison appeared the most stubborn partly because when he changed his mind, he disguised the fact, as much as he could, to establish that his view was, and always had been superior to his rival De la Beche's.
	repo-nt.tcc.virginia.edu /book/chap1/chapter1sec4.htm (4686 words)

	Rocky Road: Roderick Impey Murchison
		Murchison named the Silurian, now understood to be one of the earlier rock formations deposited in the Paleozoic Era.
		Murchison sided with Charles Lyell against the highly influential William Buckland to argue for uniformitarianism over the Noachian flood.
		Likewise, though Murchison was among the last prominent 19th-century scientists to accept the theory of the Pleistocene Ice Age, he was a great supporter of the explorer Elisha Kent Kane, whose Greenland expedition and succeeding accounts fostered acceptance of the Ice Age theory.
	www.strangescience.net /murch.htm (485 words)

	Roderick Impey Murchison, Sir Biography / Biography of Roderick Impey Murchison, Sir Biography Biography
		Roderick Murchison, descended from an old Highland family, was born in Scotland on Feb. 19, 1792.
		Murchison was involved in the two most important geological controversies of the 19th century.
		Murchison was one of the most distinguished geologists of the 19th century.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/roderick-impey-murchison-sir (551 words)

	Murchison \| Sir \| Roderick Impey \| 1792-1871\| baronet \| professor of geology, University of Edinburgh
		Murchison produced a sequence of the rocks and the fossils contained within them, and these results were ultimately pulled together to form his great work of 1839, The Silurian System.
		Murchison then went on expedition to Russia, Scandinavia and Finland, and collaborated with Von Keyserling and De Verneuil in The Geology of Russia and the Ural Mountains (1845).
		Murchison eventually endowed by bequest the Society's second highest award, the Murchison Medal, and had helped to establish the Murchison Professorship of Geology at the University of Edinburgh.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0179.html (352 words)

	Roderick Murchison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (February 19, 1792 – October 22, 1871), was an influential Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian era.
		The Murchison crater on the Moon and at least fifteen geographical locations on Earth are named after him.
		Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (1986) by James A. Secord (Princeton University Press) — documents the battle between Murchison and Adam Sedgwick.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roderick_Murchison (1015 words)

	Roderick Murchison - Wikipédia
		Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (19 février 1792-22 octobre 1871) est un géologue anglais qui a fourni la première description du Silurien.
		Peu après Murchison se lance dans une expédition en Russie en vue d'étendre à cette part du continent européen la classification élaborée pour l'Europe de l'Ouest.
		En 1855 Murchison devient directeur de la Société de géologie du Royaume-Uni, de l'École royal des mines et du musée de géologie appliquée, succédant à Sir Henry De la Beche qui le premier a tenu ses postes.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roderick_Murchison (668 words)

	Murchison family Dornie Manuscript
		At this Juncture Colonel Donald Murchison and Christopher MacRae son of Inverinate were busily engaged in fortifying the stronghold of Donan Castle and shortly thereafter a Government ship of war went into Lochduich, and opened a brisk fire on the Castle which the defenders found to be irresistible.
		But Donald Murchison and his gallant band, being informed of their advancing, soon crossed Mam Attadile and posted themselves in the woods below, till the troops arrived at Allan ba Duihh where they were saluted by a volley of musketry by wihich several of them were killed.
		Murdoch Murchison of Beolary, Glenelg and Factor to the laird of MacLeod.
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	§47. Murchison. VIII. The Literature of Science. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Roderick Impey Murchison was descended from a well-known Scottish clan living in Ross-shire.
		But it was not till 1831 that Murchison began his real life’s work, which was a definite enquiry into the stratification of the rocks on the border of Wales.
		The result of his labours, published in 1839, was the establishment of the Silurian system and the record of strata older than and different from any that had hitherto been described in these islands.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/224/0847.html (409 words)

	The Great Devonian Controversy, by Martin J. S. Rudwick
		While Roderick Murchison and Adam Sedgwick mapped the strata in Wales, establishing the classic Silurian and Cambrian systems (1835), respectively, their colleague Henry Thomas De la Beche was engaged in similar mapping in Devonshire.
		To their discomfit, Murchison and Sedgwick could not actually identify the unconformity they assumed must be there, and soon Sedgwick had to admit, at least to himself, that there wasn't one.
		Now Murchison was being forced by the logic of his own interpretation to incorporate his opponent's suggestion, and thereby to abandon a central component of the rhetoric that had distinguished their positions hitherto.
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	Roderick Impey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1 match for roderick and 1 match for impey Murchison, (Roderick Impey) Geological sketch of the north-western extremity of Sussex [bound with:] On the coal-field of Brora in Sutherlandshire [bound with:] Supplementary remarks on the strata of...
		Murchison, (Roderick Impey) Geological sketch of the north-western extremity of Sussex [bound with:] On the coal-field of Brora in Sutherlandshire [bound with:] Supplementary remarks on the strata of...
		Murchison, (SirRoderick Impey) Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains, Chiefly Coloured from Geological Researches Conducted Under the Auspices of the Emperor of All the Russias.
	www.maggs.com /catalog.asp?author=Roderick+Impey&results=30 (452 words)

	Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873)
		Murchison documented the presence of a distinctive set of fossils, one in which very few fish were found, but that included numerous different types of trilobites, brachiopods, and other such fossils.
		Murchison, who had used fossils extensively in defining the Silurian, claimed at first that the upper Cambrian, and then the entire Cambrian, were really parts of the Silurian.
		Murchison felt that the fossils of Sedgwick's "Cambrian" were not different enough from his "Silurian" forms to merit the naming of a geologic time period, and it was some time before truly distinctive Cambrian fossils were documented.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/sedgwick.html (1690 words)

	Scottish Geology - David Ure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Murchison was born at Tarradale, Easter Ross, into a wealthy Highland family.
		Though their interpretation of the formation of the rocks was wrong, they contributed greatly to the famous Highlands Controversy (Murchison vs James Nicol).
		Stafford, Robert A. Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, scientific exploration and Victorian imperialism.
	www.scottishgeology.com /history/people/roderick_impey_murchison.html (393 words)

	Roderick Murchison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (de febrero el 19, el 1792 de octubre de 22, 1871), era un geólogo británico de gran alcance que primero describió e investigó la era siluriana.
		Murchison proyectó pronto luego una campaña geológica importante en Rusia con el propósito de ampliar a esa parte del continente la clasificación que él había tenido éxito en elaborar para las rocas más viejas de Europa occidental.
		En 1855 Murchison fue designado director general del examen geológico el Reino Unido y director de la escuela real de las minas y del museo de la geología práctica en la calle de Jermyn, Londres, en la sucesión a sir Henry De la Beche, que había sido el primer para sujetar estas oficinas.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ro/Roderick%20Murchison.htm (1056 words)

	Rocky Road: Henry De la Beche
		In 1834, Roderick Impey Murchison — one of De la Beche's fellow gentleman scientists — was publicizing his "discovery" that a rock formation known as the Greywacke (or Grauwacke) predated the appearance of terrestrial plants.
		Unfortunately for Murchison, his hypothesis was wrong, and De la Beche found the proof: fossil plants in the Greywacke that looked like those found in the Carboniferous (the formation best known for its coal deposits).
		Murchison wasn't the only one skewered by these cartoons; Lyell was another favorite target, initially ridiculed in the back of De la Beche's field notebook and eventually in a lithograph of Professor Ichthyosaurus.
	www.strangescience.net /delabeche.htm (770 words)

	The Dumble Survey: FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF TEXAS 1892. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Murchison proposed the establishment of the Permian system as applied to the youngest member of the Paleozoic group.
		It was intended by Murchison to include in his Permian the " Zechstein" of the German and the " Magnesian limestone" of the English, preferring to use a geographical designation for the great system so well represented in Russia to the designation previously applied to a portion of complicated series.
		In the section published by Murchison of the Russian strata he placed the Permian in a different system from the Carboniferous, giving to the term system the extended signification it now has.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /books/dumble/publications/10/10b213a-print.html (386 words)

	Roderick Murchison
		He was born at Tarradale, in eastern Ross, Scotland, the son of Kenneth Murchison (died 1796).
		He was accompanied by P. de Verneuil (1805 - 1873) and Count F. von Keyserling (1815-1891), in conjunction with whom he produced a work on Russia and the Ural Mountains.
		In 1855 Murchison was appointed director-general of the geological survey and director of the Royal School of Mines and the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street, London, in succession to Sir Henry De la Beche, who had been the first to hold these offices.
	www.ukpedia.com /r/roderick-murchison.html (904 words)

	Master Mariners of Belfast and District, P.E.I.
		Roderick MacLeod "Ho ro", Orwell Cove - Died in New Zealand.
		Roderick A. Campbell, Pinette - Frozen crossing from Pictou to Wood Island.
		Roderick "Rory" A. MacRae, Pinette - Retired on farm at Pinette.
	www.islandregister.com /mariners.html (1102 words)

	MURCHISON, Roderick Impey, Edouard de VERNEUIL, and Count Alexander von KEYSERLING., The Geology of Russia in Europe ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		MURCHISON, Roderick Impey, Edouard de VERNEUIL, and Count Alexander von KEYSERLING., The Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains [- Géologie de la Russie d’Europe et des montagnes de l’Oural].
		With engraved dedication leaf, 14 lithographs, 12 of which are views by Haghe after Murchison, and 5 folding coloured cross-sections and two folding maps in vol.
		In the present work, Murchison’s great contribution to geology, the establishment of the Silurian system of grouping geological formations found elsewhere to those found in the Welsh borders, is taken a stage further and applied to parts of then uncharted European Russia.
	www.polybiblio.com /finch/6426.html (430 words)

	FISHING THE NET or FISHING FOR FUN
		Murchison is a cousin of the late Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Bart.
		Murchison Falls (Uganda) and Murchison River (Western Australia) are named after him.
		Murchison Falls National Park, with 3,840 square kilometers is Uganda's largest National Park.
	www.the-rural-aspect.org.uk /netfish.htm (543 words)

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