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Wendell Phillips Woodring
Wendell Phillips Woodring
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probing studies of Cenozoic molluscan faunas in the Caribbean and the adjacent eastern Pacific led to his estimate of almost precisely at the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary for the completion of the Panamanian sea barrier and lane! bridge.
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His father, James Daniel Woodring, a minister in the Evangelical (now United Methodist) Church, was installed as president of Albright College, the educational institute of the church.
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Using Cenozoic marine mollusks as a guicle to time-equivalent becls, he was able to separate and clelineate lithologically similar strata, and his now classic maps have yet to show need of major revision. In fact, Ernst Cloos in presenting Woodring with the Geological Society of America's Penrose mecial in 1950, saint, "He is not a specialist—his interest and knowledge include the entire field of geology.
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It contributed significantly to later interpretation of the Cenozoic geologic history of the Coast Range and to our understanding of (reformation relatecl to the San Andreas fault. Among the most valuable results of the KettIeman Hills study were the descriptions of outcropping Tertiary formations from CoaTinga to Taft and how these formations relate to suhs~rface units, particularly to those oiT
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The geologic maps were published on a base of mosaics of these photographs and are the first colorecl maps published on such a base by the USGS. In this paper, as in two others clearing with the Cenozoic stratigraphy of southern California, he presented the systematic paleontology in narrative rather than formal style, because the primary emphasis was on the geology and the relationship of the molluscan and foraminiferal faunas to the stratigraphy.
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He then returned to Washington, D.C., and the main office of the Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch of the USGS, housed in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. One of his most memorable experiences during this time was mapping the geology of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, which he said was "like working in an unfenced zoological park and botanical garden." This island now holds the headquarters of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
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A mere abstract, questioning the basic assumption underlying paleoecology. In 1961, to honor his work on the occasion of his retirement, Preston Clouct, then with the USGS, en cl Philip Abelson, then with the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, organizer!
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Some placed elastic bands on their shirt sleeves to keep them out of the way and wore green visors to protect their eyes from the glare of the naked light bulbs. Originally, the offices in the museum were all on the third floor, and one wit, a renowned scientist himself, said that the third floor housed the most interesting exhibits.
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sent the sheets clirectly to the typist, usually without a need to acid or change a single word. As a young man at the National Museum, Wooctring tract helct William Healey Dall in awe, and saicl later, in a memorial to Dall (195S,3)
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At the time of his death he was survived by his daughter, Judy Armagast, three grandchildren David Woodring Armagast, Marilyn Armagast Martorano, and Susan Jane Armagast (now Susan A Moison, M.D.)
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by Preston Cloud (American Philosophical Society, 1983) and myself (Geological Society of America, 1984)
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35:425-35. West Indian, Central American, and European Miocene and Pliocene mollusks.
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401-31. 1930 Upper Eocene orbitoid foraminifera from the western Santa Ynez Range, California, and their stratigraphic significance.
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Paleocene and Eocene stratigraphy of northwestern Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County, California.
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Dating of oil accumulation in Sisquoc Formation of Santa Maria district.-Am. Assoc.
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International Geological Congress Stratigraphic Commission, Lexique stratigraphique international, vol. 5, Amerique Latine Fasciole 2a, Amerique Centrale.
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50:851-57. 1978 Distribution of Tertiary marine molluscan faunas in southern Central America and northern South America.
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