 | Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet, KCB, DCL, FRS, HonFRSE, FLS, MRIA (19 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who served as... 27 KB (2,820 words) - 21:53, 2 April 2024 |
 | England. She was married to the nineteenth-century geologist Roderick Impey Murchison. Several times during her life, the couple travelled throughout... 15 KB (1,646 words) - 22:15, 21 September 2023 |
 | founding members of the society were Sir John Barrow (geographer), Sir Roderick Murchison (geologist), Robert Brown (botanist), Lord Broughton (politician)... 46 KB (4,918 words) - 22:05, 2 April 2024 |
 | Portuguese footballer Roderick Murchison (1792–1871), Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system Roderick R. Allen (1894–1970)... 10 KB (1,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024 |
 | Greenough Roderick Murchison Charles Abbot William J. Hamilton William Smyth Roderick Murchison Francis Egerton Frederick Beechey Roderick Murchison Bingham... 70 KB (6,910 words) - 17:31, 29 April 2024 |
 | named them after Roderick Murchison, the President of the Royal Geographical Society. The falls lend their name to the surrounding Murchison Falls National... 4 KB (427 words) - 11:36, 17 April 2024 |
 | approximately halfway between Westport and Nelson. Murchison was named after the Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison, one of the founders of the Royal Geographical... 18 KB (1,766 words) - 11:41, 26 January 2024 |
 | Sir Roderick Murchison. Murchison's advocacy had been essential in securing official support for Grey's Western Australian expeditions. Murchison House... 17 KB (1,830 words) - 23:15, 23 November 2023 |
polish a collection of eight animal figurines. One day, geologist Roderick Murchison visits Mary's shop with his wife, Charlotte. He expresses admiration... 35 KB (2,785 words) - 12:47, 2 April 2024 |
 | 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... 6 KB (483 words) - 05:48, 19 April 2023 |
Murchison may refer to: Lake Murchison, Tasmania, Australia Mount Murchison (Tasmania), Australia Murchison bioregion, a bioregion in Western Australia... 4 KB (429 words) - 03:14, 30 June 2023 |
 | 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... 112 KB (11,539 words) - 20:44, 26 April 2024 |
 | 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... 26 KB (3,089 words) - 04:30, 20 March 2024 |
 | Florence Baker in 1863–4. Baker named the falls Murchison Falls after the geologist Roderick Murchison, then the president of the Royal Geographical Society... 12 KB (1,092 words) - 06:02, 27 March 2024 |
 | Settlements. Murchison was born in Scotland in 1794 to Barbara (née Mackenzie) and Kenneth Murchison. His elder brother was geologist Roderick Murchison. The... 6 KB (362 words) - 09:26, 25 March 2024 |
 | 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in North Wales in the Cambrian... 69 KB (7,298 words) - 05:51, 18 March 2024 |
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... 2 KB (235 words) - 13:51, 11 October 2022 |
 | (reeds marsh)[citation needed] 1835: Charles Lyell (loess) 1840: Sir Roderick Murchison (weathered from Jurassic marine shales) 1850: Karl Eichwald (peat)[citation... 15 KB (1,473 words) - 15:08, 28 April 2024 |
 | These include pioneers of geology William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, Roderick Impey Murchison, Charles Lyell, Henry Thomas De la Beche, Thomas Henry Huxley,... 13 KB (1,082 words) - 17:33, 19 February 2024 |
 | of the mainland, after Royal Geographical Society president Roderick Murchison. Murchison was a prominent supporter of Jane Franklin in her efforts towards... 7 KB (474 words) - 16:49, 2 January 2024 |
 | The Silurian system was first identified by the Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison, who was examining fossil-bearing sedimentary rock strata in south... 57 KB (5,667 words) - 01:01, 30 April 2024 |
 | 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... 33 KB (4,033 words) - 12:25, 20 February 2024 |
 | 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... 6 KB (780 words) - 14:04, 28 May 2023 |
named it for Roderick Murchison of Melbourne, a patron of the expedition. This article incorporates public domain material from "Murchison, Mount". Geographic... 690 bytes (97 words) - 20:45, 31 March 2016 |
 | Greenough Roderick Murchison Charles Abbot William J. Hamilton William Smyth Roderick Murchison Francis Egerton Frederick Beechey Roderick Murchison Bingham... 20 KB (1,730 words) - 23:25, 13 April 2024 |
 | and zoologist Leonid Sabaneyev), the United Kingdom (geologist Sir Roderick Murchison), France (paleontologist Édouard de Verneuil), and Germany (naturalist... 42 KB (4,914 words) - 04:53, 20 April 2024 |
 | Greenough Roderick Murchison Charles Abbot William J. Hamilton William Smyth Roderick Murchison Francis Egerton Frederick Beechey Roderick Murchison Bingham... 7 KB (800 words) - 03:47, 20 December 2023 |
 | London. Facsimile reprint: (2005) Elbiron Classics. James, Sir Henry Evan Murchison (1888), The Long White Mountain, or, A journey in Manchuria: with some... 34 KB (3,835 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024 |
Greenough Roderick Murchison Charles Abbot William J. Hamilton William Smyth Roderick Murchison Francis Egerton Frederick Beechey Roderick Murchison Bingham... 22 KB (2,185 words) - 05:46, 30 January 2024 |
"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... 965 bytes (191 words) - 21:52, 21 December 2021 |