William Buckland

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William Buckland was a pioneering 19th-century English geologist and paleontologist, known for his early work on fossil interpretation and for helping establish geology as a scientific discipline in Britain.

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instanceOf geologist
paleontologist
person
centuryOfActivity 19th century
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
educatedAt Corpus Christi College, Oxford NERFINISHED
employer University of Oxford
familyName Buckland NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork geology
natural theology
paleontology
stratigraphy
fullName William Buckland NERFINISHED
genre scientific writing
theological-natural history writing
givenName William
hasAcademicDiscipline mineralogy
natural history
influenced development of geology as an academic discipline in Britain
influencedBy emerging stratigraphic and fossil studies of the early 19th century
languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
memberOf Geological Society of London NERFINISHED
Royal Society
movement early British geology
notableFor Bridgewater Treatise on geology and mineralogy NERFINISHED
early description of a dinosaur fossil later known as Megalosaurus
early scientific interpretation of fossils
helping establish geology as a scientific discipline in Britain
pioneering work in early 19th-century geology
studies of cave fossils and Pleistocene fauna
notableIdea integration of geological evidence with natural theology
use of fossils for interpreting Earth’s geological history
occupation Anglican priest
geologist
paleontologist
university professor
placeOfBirth England
positionHeld Dean of Westminster
Reader in Geology at the University of Oxford
religion Anglicanism NERFINISHED
sexOrGender male
studied cave deposits
fossil vertebrates
stratified rock formations
workLocation Oxford, England NERFINISHED
various sites in Britain

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Adam Sedgwick influencedBy William Buckland
Megalosaurus namedBy William Buckland