Wikipedia's biography of William Smith, the English surveyor and engineer called the father of English geology, covering his 1815 geological map and his development of the principle of faunal succession.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_(geologist)
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier3
A community edited tertiary reference, used here for uncontested biographical facts, cross-checked during research against the Geological Society of London's own history of the 1831 Wollaston Medal and the title conferred with it. Sources
William Smith, geologist (Wikipedia)
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