Robert L. Folk was an American geologist who lived from 1925 to 2018 and spent most of his career at the University of Texas at Austin after joining its faculty in 1952, holding the Carlton Professorship of Geology from 1982 to 1988, renowned for developing the Folk classification of sedimentary rocks in 1959, a scheme for sandstones and carbonate rocks still in use today with only minor modification. He remained an active senior research scientist at the university own Bureau of Economic Geology after his 1988 retirement, and helped establish soft rock geology as a field of study. He received the William H. Twenhofel Medal in 1979, the Neil Miner Award in 1989, the Sorby Medal in 1990 and the Distinguished Educator Medal in 1997. He received the Penrose Medal in 2000.
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Robert "Bob" Louis "Luigi" Folk (September 30, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio – June 4, 2018) was an American geologist and petrologist, specializing in sedimentology, sandstone petrology, and carbonate petrology.
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an American geologist and petrologist, specializing in sedimentology, sandstone petrology, and carbonate petrology
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an American geologist and petrologist
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He is known for the 1959 eponymous Folk classification of sedimentary rocks, which, with some minor modifications, is still in use today.
Member Of: University of Texas at Austin, Biography
Folk was appointed in September 1952 as an assistant professor in the geology department of the University of Texas at Austin.
Member Of: Australian National University, Biography
He was a visiting professor in 1965 at the Australian National University, in 1973 at the University of Milan, and in 1980 at Tongji University in Shanghai.
Member Of: Pennsylvania State University, Biography
Folk matriculated in 1943 at Pennsylvania State College (which in 1953 was renamed Pennsylvania State University).
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Robert "Bob" Louis "Luigi" Folk (September 30, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, June 4, 2018) was an American geologist and petrologist, specializing in sedimentology, sandstone petrology, and carbonate petrology.
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Robert "Bob" Louis "Luigi" Folk (September 30, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, June 4, 2018) was an American geologist and petrologist, specializing in sedimentology, sandstone petrology, and carbonate petrology.
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