Frank Leverett

Frank Leverett (March 10, 1859 – November 15, 1943) was an American geologist who specialized in glaciology.

Biography Frank Leverett was born on March 10, 1859, in Denmark, Iowa, and was descended from a family that emigrated from Boston, Lincolnshire in 1663. Following an education in Denmark Academy from which he expected to become a farmer,

Leverett was one of the leading authorities on Pleistocene glaciation and authored over 180 reports and papers. He mapped glacial deposits and landforms from the eastern Dakotas to Pennsylvania. He is credited with establishing that there was multiple glaciation (due to changes in climate). He was an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Leverett married Frances Gibson on December 22, 1887, and later married Dorothy Park on December 18, 1895, after Gibson's death. He did not have children by either marriage. A fortnight before his death a bust of Leverett was constructed by the sculptor Carleton Angell. and plant species Sigillaria leveretti were named after Frank Leverett.

Professional writings The Illinois Ice Lobe; Frank Leverett; U.S. Geological Survey, Monograph, #38; Government Printing Office; Washington, D.C.; 1899 Glacial formations and drainage features of the Erie and Ohio basins, Frank Leverett; U.S. Geol. Survey, Mon. 41, 802 pages, 25 p1s., 8 figs.;1902 Surface Geology of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan; Frank Leverett; Michigan Geological and Biological Survey, Publication 7. Geological Series 5.; Lansing, Michigan: 1910 Surface Geology and Agricultural Conditions of the Southern Peninsula of Michigan; Frank Leverett; Michigan Geological and Biological Survey, Publication 9. Geological Series 7.; Lansing, Michigan: 1911 The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the History of the Great Lakes, Monograph 53; Frank Leverett & Frank B. Taylor, U.S. Geological Survey; Government Printing Office, Washington; 1915 Moraines and shore lines of the Lake Superior region; Frank Leverett; U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Papers 154-A; p. 19, Pl.1; Government Printing Office; Washington, D.C.; 1929 Relative length of Pleistocene glacial and interglacial stages; Frank Leverett; Science, vol. 72; pp. 193–195; 1930 The place of the Iowan drive; Frank Leverett; Journal of Geology, Vol. 47; pp 398–407; pp. 400–402; 1939 Note by Frank Leverett; Frank Leverett; Journal of Geology, vol. 50; pp. 1001–1002; 1942