Ben Peach

Benjamin Neeve Peach, called Ben Peach, ( born September 6, 1842 in Gorran Haven, Cornwall, † January 29, 1926 in Edinburgh ) was a British geologist and paleontologist.

He was the son of an amateur geologist and naturalist Charles William Peach ( 1800-1886 ). In gratitude that his father found in Sutherland fossils that were known even from the other side of the Atlantic from North America, the then Director of the Geological Survey Roderick Murchison allowed his son's degree in geology ( and provided for its inclusion in the Geological Survey). Peach attended the Royal School of Mines and was in 1862 at the Geological Survey of Great Britain, for which he worked in Scotland. He is known for the elucidation of the geological structure of north-west Scotland with his friend John Horne and had in 1883 the management of the mapping Northwest Scotland at Geological Survey.

Elucidation of the complex structure ( Zone of Complicaton called ) of the Northwest Highlands with the Moine Thrust ( a zone of horizontal thrust ) was mainly field work of Horne and Peach owe and confirmed first ideas of Charles Lapworth.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1892. In 1921 he received the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. In 1892 he was awarded the Murchison Centenary Award and he received the Murchison Medal, and the Neill Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Writings

  • The Silurian Rocks of Britain, Glasgow, HM Stationery Office, 1899
  • Jethro Teall, John Horne and others: The Geological Structure of the North - West Highlands of Scotland, HM Stationery Office, 1907
  • The Higher Crustacea of the Carboniferous Rocks of Scotland, Memoirs of the Geological Society
  • With Horne Chapters on the geology of Scotland, Oxford University Press 1930
  • The geology of the neighborhood of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, HM Stationery Office, 1910
  • Description of Arthur 's Seat Vulcano, Edinburgh, HM Stationery Office, 2nd edition 1921
  • Sutherland, Geological Survey of Scotland
  • Stirlingshire, Geological Survey of Scotland
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