Newton Horace Winchell

Newton Horace Winchell (* 1839 in New York; † 1914) was an American geologist.

Winchell went to school in Connecticut and was a teacher in Connecticut and Michigan. At the same time, he studied in particular geology at the University of Michigan with a master's degree in 1867. He undertook geological field studies in Michigan, Ohio and New Mexico, and settled in Minnesota in 1872, where he led and Geology of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, Botany and Zoology at the University of Minnesota taught. In 1874 he accompanied the expedition of George Armstrong Custer in the Black Hills in South Dakota, which he mapped geologically.

He was a founder of the Geological Society of America and the Minnesota Academy of Sciences and is active in the Minnesota Historical Society. In this context, he also studied from 1909 to 1910 the Kensington Runestone.

His son was the geologist Alexander Winchell Newton and he was the grandfather of Horace Winchell.

Writings

  • The Geology of Minnesota: Final Report of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota ( 6 volumes ), 1884 Archive
  • History of the upper Mississippi Valley, Minneapolis 1881
  • With HV Winchell: The iron ores of Minnesota: their geology, discovery, development, qualities, and origin, and comparison with Those of other iron districts, Minneapolis 1891
  • Natural gas in Minnesota, St. Paul 1889
  • Alexander Newton Winchell: Elements of optical mineralogy; an introduction to microscopic petrography, with description of all minerals Whose optical elements are known and tables arranged for Their determination microscopically, New York, Van Nostrand 1909
  • Geologist ( 19th century)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1839
  • Died in 1914
  • Man
  • A member of the Geological Society of America
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