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Arthur Francis Buddington
Arthur Francis Buddington
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honor; he tract a parallel career as a field geologist with the New York State Museum and the U.S. Geological Survey, organizations that would also gladly claim him as one of their own.
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Buddington's master's thesis was a geobotanical study of fossiliferous Carboniferous shales exposed in a newly driven tunnel on College Hill his first and only venture into the arcane realms of paleontological research. The same year1913 also marked the beginning of his long association with Princeton University, where he had been awarded a fellowship.
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clegree from Princeton, he held a postdoctoral fellowship there for a short period and, uncler the auspices of the New York State Museum, began his first studies in Adirondack geology. In 1917, after briefly considering a career in the burgeoning petroleum industry, he accepted a position at Brown only to return the following spring to Princeton to teach aerial observation uncler his friend Ec~warct Sampson.
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This sort of devotion to field studies is perhaps clifficult for a laboratory scientist to understancI, and, considering that it often calls for exhausting physical effort under conditions that may be far from benign, perhaps not too easy to explain either. Part of the lure uncloubtedly is aesthetic the creep emotions evoked by close contact with nature in all its variety.
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Because Buddington's petrology had no artificial limits, the coverage in his courses was broad, inclucting ore deposits and chemical sedimentary rocks along with the traclitional igneous and metamorphic suites. His graduate-level lectures, generally two hours in length, were meticulously prepare(1 ant]
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BucIdington briefly resumed work with the U.S. Geological Survey in 1930 when he spent a most enjoyable season mapping the Bohemia and North Santiam mining districts of the Oregon Cascades.
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; Geology and Mineral Resources of the Hammond, Antwerp, and Lowville Quadrangles, N.Y (New York State Museum Bulletin 2961; Regional Geology of the St. Lawrence Magnetite District, N.Y (U.S.
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A few illustrative examples follow. BucIdington's ~ 959 paper delineating ancI explaining depth-relatect differences among igneous intrusives a most useful and illuminating concept is base(1 on his perceptive field observations of igneous intrusives in the greatly clifferent geologic environments of NewfouncIland, the Alaska Coast Ranges, the Oregon Cascades, anc} the Adirondacks of New York.
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Many concepts of value were produced, among them the relationship between mineralogy and magnetic anomalies. (For example, it was discovered that reverse remanent magnetism was a characteristic property of Ti-bearing hematite, information of great value in the interpretation of measured magnetic anomalies in the region.)
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Somewhat ironically, however, with respect to the Adironciacks, it is also likely that Bu~clington's strictly magmatic interpretation of certain bocties of alaskite and layerect gneiss in the dominantly metasedimentary terrane of the Adirondack Lowlands will have to yield to a more complex model: one that involves partial melting, (liapiric movement, and at least some degree of high-temperature metasomatic replacement. Exclusive of abstracts, medal presentations, and the like.
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Geological Survey, presented him with its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, in 1963. in 1964 came a ctifferent kind of honor, one that pleased Bucldington greatly: a new mineral discovered by his former student Donald E
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19641. The University of Liege in 1967 presented him with an honorary (legree in "appliecl science." Ancl finally the symposium volume The Origin of Anorthosite and Related Rocks, which was publishecl in 1970 by the New York State Museum ant]
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Buddington depenclect on her absolutely in social affairs, and she was a gracious hostess to generations of Princeton gracluate students—for years the Buciclingtons regularly visited and in turn entertained incoming students and their wives, engendering an esprit de corps at Princeton rarely matcher! in academic circles.
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U.S. Geological Survey Strategic Minerals Investigations, Preliminary Report, 3 - 194.
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vii-xi. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America.
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Sci., 203:35-87. Mineral deposits of the Wrangell district, southeastern Alaska.
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525 - 30. Coast range intrusives of southeastern Alaska.
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Dioritic intrusive rocks and contact metamorphism in the Cascade Range in Oregon.
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Chemical petrology and mineralogy of hornblendes in northwest Adirondack granitic rocks.
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Res., 62:465-74. Interrelated Precambrian granitic rocks, northwest Adirondacks.
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Ore deposits of the St. Lawrence County magnetite district, northwest Adirondacks, New York.
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Sulfur isotopes and origin of northwest Adirondack sulfide deposits.
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