About Eliot Blackwelder
Lived 1880 – 1969 (aged 88–89). Eliot Blackwelder was an American geologist and university teacher.
Eliot Blackwelder (June 4, 1880 – January 14, 1969) was an American geologist and educator. Known primarily as a field geologist, from 1922 to 1945 he was head of the Stanford University department of geology. He served as president of the Geological Society of America in 1940 and of the Seismological Society of America from 1947 to 1949.
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Who was Eliot Blackwelder?
American geologist (1880-1969)
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Eliot Blackwelder was born in 1880 in Chicago.
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Eliot Blackwelder died in 1969.
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Eliot Blackwelder was a geologist and university teacher.
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Eliot Blackwelder was American.
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