home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ The Epic Interactive Encyclopedia 1998 / Epic Interactive Encyclopedia, The - 1998 Edition (1998)(Epic Marketing).iso / S / Smith,_William / INFOTEXT < prev   
Text File  |  1992-09-01  |  307b  |  8 lines
  1. 1769-1839. British geologist, the founder of
  2. stratigraphy. Working as a canal engineer, he
  3. observed while supervising excavations that
  4. different beds of rock could be identified by
  5. their fossils, and so established the basis
  6. of stratigraphy. He also produced the first
  7. geological maps of England and Wales.
  8.