John James Stevenson (October 10, 1841 – August 10, 1924) was an American geologist, born in

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. He graduated from

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in 1863, became

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for two years (1869–71), then served as professor of geology at New York University until 1909. During 1873–74 and from 1878 to 1880 he was geologist for the

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. He also served on the

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from 1875 to 1878 and from 1881 to 1882. He was president of the

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in 1898. He died in

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on August 10, 1924.

Selected publications

* ''Notes on the Geology of West Virginia'' (1873) * ''The Geological Relations of the Lignitic Groups'' (1875) *''On Dr. Peale's Notes on the Age of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado'' (1877) * ''The Upper Devonian Rocks of Southwest Pennsylvania'' (1878) * ''Note on the Fox Hills Group of Colorado'' (1879) * ''Notes on the Geology of Galisteo Creek, New Mexico'' (1879) * ''Notes on the Laramie Group of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico'' (1879) * ''Surface Geology of South-West Pennsylvania and Adjacent Portions of West Virginia and Maryland'' (1879) * ''Notes on the Geology of Wise, Lee and Scott Counties, Virginia'' (1880) * ''Notes Respecting a Re-Eroded Channel-Way'' (1880) * ''A Geological Reconnaissance of Parts of Lee, Wise, Scott and Washington Counties, Virginia'' (1881) * ''Report upon Geological Examinations in Southern Colorado and Northern

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during 1878 and 1879'' (1881) * ''The Upper Freeport Coal Bed Along Laurel Ridge in Preston County of West Virginia'' (1881) * ''Notes on the Quinnimont Coal Group in Mercer Co. of West Virginia and Tazewell Co. of Virginia'' (1881) * ''Notes on the Coal-Field Near Cañon City, Colorado'' (1881) * ''Note on the Laramie Group of Southern New Mexico'' (1881) * ''Note on the Laramie Group in the Vicinity of Raton, New Mexico'' (1882) * ''Memorial Notice of Benjamin Nicholas Martin'' (1884) * ''Notes on the Geologic Structure of Tazewell, Russell, Wise, Smyth and Washington Counties of Virginia'' (1885) * ''Some Notes Respecting Metamorphism'' (1885) * ''A Geological Reconnaissance of Bland, Giles, Wythe and Portions of Pulaski and Montgomery Counties of Virginia'' (1887) * ''Notes on the Lower Carboniferous Groups Along the Easterly Side of the Appalachian Area in Pennsylvania and the Virginias'' (1887) * ''Notes of the Surface Geology of South-West Virginia'' (1887) * ''The Faults of Southwest Virginia'' (1887) * ''The Mesozoic Rocks of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico'' (1889) * ''Discussion on the effect of shearing strains'' (1890) * ''Review: Stratigraphy of the Bituminous Coal Field of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia; by Israel C. White'' (1892) * ''

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'' (1893) * ''On the Use of the Name "Catskill"'' (1893) * ''Origin of the Pennsylvania

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'' (1893) * ''Some Notes on Southeastern Alaska and its People'' (1893) * ''On the New England Coal Fields of the United States'' (1895) * ''Origin of Pennsylvania Anthracite'' (1895) * ''Review: A Summary Description of the Geology of Pennsylvania. J.P. Lesley'' (1896) * ''The Geological Congress at St. Petersburg'' (1897) * ''The Debt of the World to Pure Science'' (1898) * ''1898 Geological Society of America Presidential Address: Our Society'' * ''Memoir of James Hall'' (1900) * '' Edward Orton'' (1900) * ''Should Latin and Greek be Required for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts'' (1900) * ''The Section at Schoharie, N.Y.'' (1901) * ''Review: History of Geology and Paleontology to the End of the Nineteenth Century. By Karl Alfred von Zittel'' (1902) * ''Carboniferous of the Appalachian Basin'' (1903–1907) * '' J. Peter Lesley'' (1903) * ''The Jurassic Coal of Spitzbergen'' (1905) * ''Recent Geology of Spitzbergen'' (1905) * ''The Centenary of the Geological Society of London'' (1907) * ''Darwin and Geology'' (1909) * ''The Coal Basin of Commentry in Central France'' (1910) * ''The Coal Basin of Decazeville, France'' (1910) * ''Formation of Coal Beds'' (1911–1913) * ''Interrelations of the Fossil Fuels'' (1916–1918) * ''Origin of formkohle'' (1917) * ''Academic unrest and college control'' (1920)

References

* * ''GSA Today'
August 2013
reprint of J.J. Stevenson's 1898 Presidential Address: Our Society

Selected publications

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