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32: 1595: 660: 283:. In October of the same year, he accepted a position as assistant professor of Mineralogy and Geology at the University of California in Berkeley. He became a full professor in 1892, and a professor emeritus from 1928 to his death on June 16, 1952. 347:, originally a mining construction research tunnel on UC Berkeley's campus. During the Cold War, it was used to house special equipment to monitor Soviet nuclear tests. It is currently used to house seismological instruments. 526: 720: 100: 1492: 1281: 713: 558:
Eckel, Edwin, 1982, GSA Memoir 155, The Geological Society of America – Life History of a Learned Society. Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America Memoir 155, 168 pp.
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Fairchild, Herman LeRoy, 1932, The Geological Society of America 1888-1930, a Chapter in Earth Science History: New York, The Geological Society of America, 232 pp.
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in 1895, and after the 1906 quake, the first to delineate the entire length of the San Andreas Fault which previously had been noted only in the
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after the Franciscan Order of the Catholic church whose missions used conscripted Native American labor to mine limestone in these areas.
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while pursuing his graduate degrees. He received his M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1885, and his Ph.D. from
563: 75: 53: 46: 176: 1674: 355: 1669: 1436: 295: 20: 1639: 730: 415: 299: 233: 166: 1629: 1227: 502: 291: 228:(July 25, 1861 – June 16, 1952) was a Scots-born Canadian geologist who became professor of geology at the 1699: 798: 744: 269: 264:, Canada with his parents at age six. In 1883, he received his B.A. degree in natural science from the 1634: 1287: 774: 647: 325: 145: 869: 827: 627: 644:
The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission
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which became known as the "Lawson Report". He was also the first person to identify and name the
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In 1890, he left the Geological Survey of Canada to work as a consulting geologist in
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to withstand earthquakes. The house is an official city designated
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Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
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He was a consulting geologist for the construction of the
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Lawson Hill (elev. 1,128 feet), located west of the
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
San Andreas Fault
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University of Toronto
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National Academy of Sciences
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