Raymond Cecil Moore
Raymond Cecil Moore ( born February 20, 1892 in Roslyn, Washington, † April 16, 1974 in Lawrence, Kansas ) was an American geologist, paleontologist and stratigrapher, among other things, due to its significant participation in the standard work on the palaeontology, the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, was known.
Life
Moore grew up as the oldest of four children of Irish -born Baptist preacher Bernard Harding Moore and his wife Winifred Denney in the Wenatchee Mountains. His training at the Denison University in Ohio, he graduated in 1912 with a bachelor's degree from, then went to the University of Chicago in 1916 and received a doctorate summa cum laude for his work on the early Mississippian of Missouri. As a new doctor, he was assistant professor of geology at the University of Kansas and at the same time state geologist and director of the State Geological Survey of Kansas, a position he held until 1954. At the University of Kansas, he was 1920-1954 times Chairman of the geological faculty, he became professor emeritus in 1962.
In 1943, he volunteered at the age of 51 years for active military service in World War 2 and served as aide to General Douglas MacArthur in Japan. Moore was married twice and had a daughter.
Work
At the time when state geologist Moore began with the feinstratigraphischen recording of rock layers of Pennsylvaniums to Permian, which could be accurately track over long distances in the central United States, and developed theories about recurring ( cyclic ) sedimentation, the development of Sedimentationssequenzen ( sequence stratigraphy ) and the importance of fossils Communities for the understanding of stratigraphic sequences. The results of this work were included in the publications in the context of the geological mapping of Kansas, came out in 1937. Moore was known for his ability to organize, and brought his colleagues at the State Geological Survey of Kansas to use binding, valid for the entire state rules for naming stratigraphic units. His proposal for the stratigraphic subdivision of the rocks of Kansas has still existed today.
While working with stratigraphic issues and the study of the facies of rocks Morre recognized the importance of fossils Communities for the interpretation of rock sequences. He dealt among other things with fossil corals, gastropods and bryozoans, but especially crinoids. In 1952, he was with C. G. Lalicker and A. G. Fischer, still operating the standard work out Invertebrate Fossils. Since 1948, he prepared the publication in 1953 of appearing Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, which has since been published to date in 50 volumes and has become the most important directory in the field of paleontology invertebrates.
Honors
He was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1968 and 1970 with the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
He received further awards from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists ( AAPG ), the Paleontological Society, the Académie Royale de Belgique and the Society for Sedimentary Geology ( SEPM ). According to Moore the Raymond C. Moore Memorial Grant of the AAPG is named and the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Paleontology of the SEPM. In 1965 he was made an honorary member of the Paleontological Society.
Works
- Historical Geology, McGraw Hill 1933
- 1952 CG Lalicker, A. Fischer: Invertebrate Fossils. McGraw Hill, ISBN 978-0070430204
- From 1953: Initiator and editor of the Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. The Geological Society of America, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence