William Harmon Norton

William Harmon Norton (1856 – 1944 in Mount Vernon) was an American geologist and classicist.^[2][3][4]

Map from Underground Water Resources of Iowa (1912), co-written by Norton^[1]

Norton studied at Cornell College and became an academic there.^[2] Initially a classicist, he became fascinated with geology and founded the college's geology department.^[5] He became professor of Greek and geology in 1881 and of geology alone in 1890 until his retirement in 1924, also working for the United States Geological Survey.^[2] He is particularly known for his textbook Elements of Geology.^[6][7]