John Edward Marr

John Edward Marr ( born June 14, 1857 in Poulton- le -Sands, † October 1, 1933 ) was a British geologist and paleontologist.

Marr was interested in as a young boy of Geology, after he discovered a fossil kambrisches during a vacation in Caernarfon in North Wales, which was then named after him. At the Royal Lancaster Grammar School, his teacher RH Tiddeman took him on geological excursions. He studied from 1875 with a scholarship ( Exhibitioner ) Geology at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied with Thomas George Bonney and Thomas McKenny Hughes, while still a student had first publications in 1878 and graduated with top marks. In 1881 he became a Fellow of St. John 's College, and in 1882 he received the Sedgwick Prize for studies of the fossil collection of Joachim Barrande from the Silurian of Bohemia, whose stratigraphy and corrected, the appearance of younger fossils in the older Silurian to faults in the rock back, in contrast to the view Barrandes, who advocated that the fossil species lived at the same time. Since that time, he was also regarded as an authority for the Paleozoic. From 1886 he was University Lecturer at Cambridge, and in 1917 he was the successor of Hughes Woodwardian professor of geology at Cambridge. In 1930 he became Professor Emeritus.

Marr intensive research in the Lake District, with first releases already in 1878.

Charles Doolittle Walcott named a common fossil of the Burgess Shale, Marrella splendens, according to Marr.

In 1900 he was awarded the Lyell Medal, and in 1914 the Wollaston medal. He was since 1891 a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society, the Royal Medal he received in 1930. 1888 to 1898 he was secretary of the Geological Society of London, and from 1904 to 1906 its president.

Writings

  • Agricultural geology. Methuen, 1903.
  • Cumberland. Cambridge University Press, 1929.
  • Deposition of the sedimentary rocks. Cambridge University Press, 1929.
  • The Geology of the Lake District and the scenery as Influenced by geological structure. Cambridge University Press, 1916.
  • The Palaeozoic and Neozoic Times in the Lake District and Neighbourhood. In: Geology in the Field: the Jubilee Volume of the Geologists Association. 1910, pp. 624-660.
  • Publisher with AE Shipley: Handbook of the Natural History of Cambridgeshire, Cambridge University Press 1904
  • An introduction Geology. Cambridge University Press, 1905.
  • North Lancashire. Cambridge University Press, 1912.
  • The principles of stratigraphical geology. Cambridge University Press, 1898.
  • The scientific study of scenery, 9th edition. Methuen, 1943.
  • Westmoreland, Cambridge County Geographies, Cambridge University Press 1909
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