Nelson Horatio Darton

Nelson Horatio Darton (Brooklyn, 17 de dezembro de 1865 – Washington, D.C., 28 de fevereiro de 1948) foi um geólogo estadunidense

Nelson Horatio Darton
Nelson Horatio Darton Darton c. 1895
Nascimento	17 de dezembro de 1865 Brooklyn
Morte	28 de fevereiro de 1948 (82 anos) Washington, D.C.
Nacionalidade	Estadunidense
Alma mater	Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia, Universidade Harvard
Prêmios	Medalha Penrose (1940)
Instituições	Serviço Geológico dos Estados Unidos
Campo(s)	Geologia

Começou a trabalhar no Serviço Geológico dos Estados Unidos em 1886. Recebeu a Medalha Penrose de 1940.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Publicações

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Nelson Horatio Darton

• Preliminary report on the geology and underground water resources of the central Great Plains U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 32(1905)
• Geology of the Owl Creek Mountains, with notes on resources of adjoining regions in the ceded portion of the Shoshone Indian Reservation, Wyoming United States 59th Congress, Senate Document no. 219, (1906)
• Description of Bald Mountain and Dayton quadrangles, Wyoming U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas, folio 141 (1906)
• Description of Cloud Peak and Fort McKinney quadrangles, Wyoming U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas, folio 142 (1906)
• Geology of the Bighorn Mountains U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 51 (1906)
• Geology and underground waters of the Arkansas Valley in eastern Colorado U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 52 (1906)
• Paleozoic and Mesozoic of central Wyoming:. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 19, p. 403–470 (1908)
• Geology and water resources of the northern portion of the Black Hills and adjoining regions in South Dakota and Wyoming U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 65 (1909)
• Description of the Laramie and Sherman quadrangles, Wyoming with E. Blackwelder, and C.E. Siebenthal U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas, folio 173 (1910)
• Description of the central Black Hills, South Dakota with S. Paige U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas, folio 219 (1925)

Referências

1. King, P.B., Memorial to Nelson Horatio Darton (1865-1948), Geological Society of America Proceedings, 145-170. 1949
2. Nelson Horatio Darton biography at the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program website
3. http://wwwpaztcn.wr.usgs.gov/wyoming/rpt_ground.html Arquivado em 6 de março de 2005, no Wayback Machine. Repeat Historical Photography of Twentieth Century Vegetation Change in Wyoming and Montana
4. Snoke, Arthur W. Nelson Horatio Darton: the quintessential reconnaissance geologist of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains Rocky Mountain Geology; October 2003; v. 38; no. 2; p. 283-287; doi:10.2113/gsrocky.38.2.283