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CHESTER RAY LONGWELL October 15, ISS7-December 15, 1975 BY3OHN RODGERS CHESTER LONGWELL, the son of John Kilgore and Julia (Megown) Longwell, was born in 1887 near the settlement of Spalcling in northeastern Missouri, in the Mark Twain country, an association that he lover!
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vicinity, then a virtually unknown corner of southern Nevada; indeed in his report on the region he mentions the "strong appeal to the geologist" of an area "practically unmapped" (even topographically) and with "the lure of the unknown." The area was primitive, travel was by mule or horse, water was very scarce, and isolation was the rule.
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and restudied the Muddy Mountains anct other ranges nearby, in particular the high Spring Mountains west of Las Vegas, where the thrust belt he discovered is well displayed. When he approaches]
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252 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS tion of faulting and deposition in the Newark (Triassic) basin of Massachusetts and Connecticut and, by implication, in the other Newark basins, an idea close to one he had demonstratect in his cloctoral dissertation for the Cenozoic deposits in southern Nevacia.
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the highest honor in North American geology, the Penrose Mecial. He was also active in teaching elementary geology at Yale, and after Pirsson's (leash he inherited the "Yale" textbook of Physical Geology, which, as L.ongwell, Knopf, and Flint, dominatecT the textbook field for a decade or so.
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254 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS ~ AM DEEPLY APPRECIATIVE for the help I have received in preparing this memoir from Mrs. Irene Longwell.
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Bull., 34:231~1. 1924 Thrust faults and flaws in southern Nevada.
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19:419-34. Faulted fans west of the Sheep Range, southern Nevada.
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Flint. Outlines of Physical Geology.
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Thrust faults of southern Nevada photographed in color.
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. 1942 The dating of diastrophic events in southern Nevada.
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Utah, 7:27-42. Structure of the Muddy Mountains, Nevada.
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In: Biographical Memoirs, 32: 132-45. New York: Columbia Univ.
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Bull., 83:273-87. 1974 Large-scale lateral faulting in southern Nevada.
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