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James C. Briden
James Christopher Briden is a British geophysicist, known for his work on paleoclimate and paleomagnetism. He was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1984. Education Briden attended the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1949 to 1957 and won a State Scholarship in Mathematics to St Catherine's College, Oxford. At school he read Arthur Holmes’ principles of physical geology, and became interested in the intersection of geology and physics. Briden was an undergraduate in Oxford. Following a lecture by Patrick Blackett on paleomagnetism and continental drift, Briden was inspired to undertake a PhD in paleomagnetism at the Australian National University to work with Ted Irving. This worked involved the documentation of 'polar wander paths' for the continents of Gondwaland, through the analysis of their ancient magnetic signatures. He completed his PhD thesis on paleolatitudes and paleomagnetic studies in 1964. Career From Australia, Briden moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gondwana
Gondwana ( ; ) was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent. The remnants of Gondwana make up around two-thirds of today's continental area, including South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia (continent), Australia, Zealandia, Arabian Peninsula, Arabia, and the Indian subcontinent. Gondwana was formed by the Accretion (geology), accretion of several cratons (large stable blocks of the Earth's crust), beginning with the East African Orogeny, the collision of India and Geography of Madagascar, Madagascar with East Africa, and culminating in with the overlapping Brasiliano orogeny, Brasiliano and Kuunga orogeny, Kuunga orogenies, the collision of South America with Africa, and the addition of Australia and Antarctica, respectively. Eventually, Gondwana became the largest piece of continental crust of the Paleozoic Era, covering an area of some , about one-fifth of the Earth's surface. It fused with Laurasia during the Carboniferous to form Pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Geophysicists
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murchison Medal Winners
Murchison may refer to: Geographical features * Lake Murchison, Tasmania, Australia * Mount Murchison (Tasmania), Australia * Murchison bioregion, a bioregion in Western Australia * Murchison Falls, Uganda * Murchison Glacier, New Zealand * Murchison Island, an island in Lake Nipigon, Ontario, Canada * Murchison Promontory, Canada * Murchison Range, Stauning Alps, Greenland * Murchison River (other) * Murchison Sound, Greenland National parks * Iytwelepenty / Davenport Ranges National Park in Australia * Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda * Murchison Mountains, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand Places Australia * Electoral district of Murchison-Eyre, a former state electorate of Western Australia * Electoral division of Murchison, an electorate in the Tasmanian Legislative Council * Murchison County, New South Wales * Murchison, Victoria * Murchison (Western Australia), a sub-region in the state * Shire of Murchison, a local government area in Western Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellows Of Linacre College, Oxford
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Fellows may refer to Fellow, in plural form. Fellows or Fellowes may also refer to: Places *Fellows, California, USA *Fellows, Wisconsin, ghost town, USA Other uses * Fellowes, Inc., manufacturer of workspace products *Fellows, a partner in the firm of English canal carriers, Fellows Morton & Clayton *Fellows (surname) *Mount Fellows, a mountain in Alaska See also *North Fellows Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wapello County, Iowa *Justice Fellows (other) Justice Fellows may refer to: * Grant Fellows (1865–1929), associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court * Raymond Fellows (1885–1957), associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court {{disambiguation, tndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Linacre College, Oxford
Linacre College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college was founded in 1962 and is named after Thomas Linacre (1460–1524), founder of the Royal College of Physicians as well as a distinguished renaissance humanist. The college is located on St Cross Road at its junction with South Parks Road, bordering University Parks to the north and the Science Area, Oxford, University Science Area to the west. Its members comprise approximately 50 Fellow#Oxford.2C Cambridge and Dublin, fellows and 550 Postgraduate education, postgraduate students. Linacre is a diverse college in terms of both the international composition of its members (the majority of whom are from outside the UK and have come from over 133 countries), as well as the disciplines studied. Linacre was the first graduate college in the UK for both sexes and all subjects. Unlike most colleges, students and fellows share the same common room ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environmental Change Institute
The Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford in England was founded in 1991 "to organize and promote interdisciplinary research on the nature, causes and impact of environmental change and to contribute to the development of management strategies for coping with future environmental change". In 2013/14 it had a research income of £4.7million, 50 active projects, 350 partners and 60 researchers working across 40 countries. The ECI's research is interdisciplinary in both outlook and approach. The Institute has worked on aspects of climate, energy and ecosystems and is developing expertise with food and water. ECI is involved in several long-term research projects, including thUK Climate Impacts Programme(UKCIP) which develops new tools to link climate science with business and government for innovations that can adaptat to the impacts of climate change and Climateprediction.net, the world's largest citizen science climate project with 350,000 individuals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural Environment Research Council
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is a British Research Councils UK, research council that supports research, training and knowledge transfer activities in the environmental sciences. History NERC began in 1965 when several environmental (mainly geographic) research organisations (including Nature Conservancy (UK), Nature Conservancy which became the Nature Conservancy Council in 1973 and was divided up in 1991) were brought under the one Umbrella organization, umbrella organisation. When most research councils were re-organised in 1994, it had new responsibilities – Earth observation and science-developed archaeology. Collaboration between research councils increased in 2002 when Research Councils UK was formed. Chief executives * Sir Graham Sutton (1965–1970) * Professor James William Longman Beament (succeeding V. C. Wynne-Edwards FRS; 1978–1981) * Professor John Krebs, Baron Krebs, John Krebs, Baron Krebs (1994–1999) * Sir John Lawton (scientist), John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Millner Shackleton
Robert Millner Shackleton FRS (30 December 1909 – 3 May 2001) was a British field geologist who developed an interest in the geology of East Africa. He initiated structural studies across orogenic belts in Tanzania-Zambia-Malawi (in the late 1960s), major studies across the Limpopo Belt and adjacent Archaean greenstone belts of Zimbabwe-Botswana-South Africa (in the 1970s) and projects across the orogenic systems of Egypt, Sudan and Kenya (in the early 1980s). Just prior to his death he was working on a detailed compilation of the Precambrian geology of East Africa. At the age of 75 he led a Royal Society geological traverse across Tibet, in collaboration with the Academica Sinica, Beijing. Born in Purley, Surrey, he was educated at the Quakers' Sidcot School in Somerset and the University of Liverpool, graduating BSc in geology with First Class Honours in 1930. He went on to research at Liverpool under P.G.H. Boswell on the geology of the Moel Hebog area of Snowdonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
