Frederick Leslie Ransome, Ph.D. (1868–1935) was a British-born

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. Ransome was born in

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and educated at the

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(S.B., 1893; Ph.D., 1896). Ransome described and named the mineral

Lawsonite Lawsonite is a hydrous calcium aluminium sorosilicate mineral with formula CaAl2Si2O7(OH)2·H2O. Lawsonite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system in prismatic, often tabular crystals. Crystal twinning is common. It forms transparent to transluce ...

after

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. Ransome was employed by the

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. Ransome's many official reports and bulletins dealt mainly with phases of

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. Ransome helped found the journal ''Economic Geology'' in 1905, and was associate editor of the ''Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences''. Ransome was a member of the

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, and served as NAS Treasurer in 1919. He was elected to the

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in 1935.

Selected publications

* '
The association of alunite with gold in the Goldfield district, Nevada
'' (1907) * '
The Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bisbee Quadrangle, Arizona
'', 1904, US Geological Survey * '
Geology and gold deposits of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado
'' (1906) with

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. US Geological Survey * '
The geology and ore deposits of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho
'' (1908) with Frank Cathcart Calkins, US Geological Survey * '
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bullfrog District, Nevada
'' (1910) with William Harvey Emmons and George H. Garrey, US Geological Survey * '
Report of progress in the geological resurvey of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado
'' (1904) with

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* 1868 births Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 1935 deaths American geologists British emigrants to the United States University of California, Berkeley alumni {{US-geologist-stub Members of the American Philosophical Society