Adam Sedgwick
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Adam Sedgwick 1785-1873, English geologist. He was a professor at Cambridge from 1818. His most important work was a study, made with R. I. Murchison, of the rock formation of Devonshire, which they named the Devonian system. Sedgwick also introduced the term Cambrian.
Bibliography: See J. W. Clark and T. M. Hughes, The Life and Letters of the Rev. Adam Sedgwick (2 vol., 1890).
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