Sir William Dawson: Early contributions to carbonate petrology

From: Journal of Geoscience Education | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

In 1859, JW. Dawson published a paper in a now obscure Montreal journal, the Canadian Naturalist, giving the results of an investigation of Canadian limestones using microscopic examination of thin sections. The paper includes several micrographic drawings and appears to be the first thin-section study of any rock published in North America. Both Dawson and Sorby, who earlier published a thin-section study of a silicified British limestone, indirectly learned the technique from William Nicol, a teacher of physics at Edinburgh University.

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