Arthur William Rogers

Arthur William Rogers ( born June 5, 1872 in Bishops Hull to Taunton, Somerset, † June 23, 1946 in Mowbray, Cape Province ) was a British- South African geologist. He was director of the Geological Survey of South Africa.

Life

Rogers studied at Cambridge. He was from 1895 in South Africa, first in 1896 as an Assistant Geologist and from 1902 as head of the Cape of Good Hope Geological Commission. In 1916 he became director of the Geological Survey of South Africa in Pretoria, where he stayed until his retirement in 1932. During this time the International Congress of Geologists fell in South Africa 1929.

At first he mapped under the Professor EHL Schwarz remote regions of the Cape Province to the Kalahari. In the Transvaal, he examined the gold fields of Heidelberg and Klerksdorp.

In 1931 he received the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Writings

  • An introduction to the geology of Cape Colony, Longmans, Green and Co., 1905, Online
  • The pioneers in South African Geology and their work, Geological Society of South Africa 1937
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