Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet (19 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological...

England. She was married to the nineteenth-century geologist Roderick Impey Murchison. Several times during her life, the couple travelled throughout...

approximately halfway between Westport and Nelson. Murchison was named after the Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison, one of the founders of the Royal Geographical...

named them after Roderick Murchison, the President of the Royal Geographical Society. The falls lend their name to the surrounding Murchison Falls National...

Portuguese footballer Roderick Murchison (1792–1871), Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system Roderick R. Allen (1894–1970)...

founding members of the society were Sir John Barrow (geographer), Sir Roderick Murchison (geologist), Robert Brown (botanist), Lord Broughton (politician)...

Settlements. Murchison was born in Scotland in 1794 to Barbara (née Mackenzie) and Kenneth Murchison. His elder brother was geologist Roderick Murchison. The...

Murchison is a lunar impact crater on the north edge of the Sinus Medii. It was named in honour of the geologist Sir Roderick Murchison. It shares a section...

The Murchison River, which takes its meltwater, flows under the larger Tasman Glacier to the south. The Murchison Glacier is named after Roderick Murchison...

Sir Roderick Murchison. Murchison's advocacy had been essential in securing official support for Grey's Western Australian expeditions. Murchison House...

Egypt. Other friendships were with explorers Henry Morton Stanley, Roderick Murchison, John H. Speke and James A. Grant, with the ruler of Egypt Pasha Ismail...

Murchison may refer to: Lake Murchison, Tasmania, Australia Mount Murchison (Tasmania), Australia Murchison bioregion, a bioregion in Western Australia...

British Association at Glasgow in 1840, and attracted the notice of Roderick Murchison, with the result that he received, from Sir Henry De la Beche, an...

Florence Baker in 1863–4. Baker named the falls Murchison Falls after the geologist Roderick Murchison, then the president of the Royal Geographical Society...

proposed the Cambrian period in 1835, in a joint publication in which Roderick Murchison also proposed the Silurian period. Later in 1840, to resolve what...

London. Facsimile reprint: (2005) Elbiron Classics. James, Sir Henry Evan Murchison (1888), The Long White Mountain, or, A journey in Manchuria: with some...

The concept of the Permian was introduced in 1841 by geologist Sir Roderick Murchison, who named it after the region of Perm in Russia. The Permian witnessed...

These include pioneers of geology William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, Roderick Impey Murchison, Charles Lyell, Henry Thomas De la Beche, Thomas Henry Huxley,...

polish a collection of eight animal figurines. One day, archaeologist Roderick Murchison visits Mary's shop with his wife, Charlotte. He expresses admiration...

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The Great Devonian Controversy began in 1834 when Roderick Murchison disagreed with Henry De la Beche as to the dating of certain petrified plants found...

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"recognizing the first rich assemblage of fossils in the rock record". Roderick Murchison names the Silurian system in the same year. He believes that (not...

and encouraging Roderick Murchison for some years, and in 1831 was able to suggest a good starting point in South Wales for Murchison's researches into...

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The Silurian system was first identified by the Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison, who was examining fossil-bearing sedimentary rock strata in south...

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Greenough Roderick Murchison Charles Abbot William J. Hamilton William Smyth Roderick Murchison Francis Egerton Frederick Beechey Roderick Murchison Bingham...

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of the mainland, after Royal Geographical Society president Roderick Murchison. Murchison was a prominent supporter of Jane Franklin in her efforts towards...