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Dutton, Capt Clarence Edward, 1841?1912 (American geologist, United States Geological Survey)

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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 31 October 1883

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/15
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton expressing regret that he was unable to vacation in Germany and France during the month of October as he had anticipated. He thanks Geikie for his papers on the pre-cambrian, reports that American geologists are also considering this problem and surmises that American exposures of pre-cambrian fosseliferous rocks are more extensive than those in Britain.

Dates: 31 October 1883

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 21 July 1884

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/16
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton telling him that he is undertaking field work in New Mexico. He is concentrating on the plateau country aided by good topographic maps of the region. He tells Geikie that there are landforms and cliffs similar to those in Utah and Arizona with exposures of Triassic, Permain and Cretaceous strata. These are overlain with evidence of volcanic activity, ancient basalt of 50-200 feet depth on the plateau. Young basalt, in vast lava...
Dates: 21 July 1884

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton, 05 March 1880

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/1
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton asking him to suggest 100 possible British and Irish recipients for gratuitous copies of his monograph on the volcanic geology of Utah: Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah, with Atlas, ( 1880) Includes a pencil list of possible recipients.

Dates: 05 March 1880

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