Adolph Carl von de Heyde Süssmilch (12 February 1875 – 6 December 1946), also known as Adolph Carl Süssmilch, was an Australian

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and

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. Süssmilch was born in

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, to German immigrants. He worked as an indent clerk and studied science part-time at

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, where he later taught geology and mining. His first scientific paper (on basic plutonic rocks near Kiama) was published in the

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journal in 1905. In 1911 he published what was to become a widely used textbook: ''An Introduction to the Geology of New South Wales''. The next three decades he produced a total of nineteen published papers on various aspects of geology and the physical geography of New South Wales. In his later papers he turned to geomorphology and palaeozoic stratigraphy. He was awarded the

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by the Royal Society of New South Wales (of which he was president in 1922) in 1939. Two years later, he became its 1941 Clarke memorial lecturer.

References

Süssmilch, Adolph Carl von de Heyde (1875 - 1946)
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, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, MUP, 1990, pp 139–140 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sussmilch, Carl Australian geologists 1875 births 1946 deaths