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Yale University. Department of Geology and Geophysics

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Barrell papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 778
Abstract: Correspondence, the manuscript for "The Piedmont Terraces of the Northern Appalachians" in various stages; manuscripts and typescripts for "The Genesis of the Earth," "Relations of Pleistocene Warping to Strength of Crust," "Significance of the Equatorial Acceleration in the Sun's Rotation," and "The Strength of the Earth's Crust" Part IX; notes; and miscellaneous items on geology originating during Barrell's service as secretary of the geological faculty at Yale University. The...
Dates: 1909-1920

Alan Mara Bateman papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 641
Abstract:

Correspondence, field reports, memoranda, and government documents chiefly relating to Bateman's service on various government commissions, among them the Metals and Minerals Division of the Foreign Economic Administration (1942-1946), the U.S. Missions to Mexico (1942), the President's Materials Policy Commission (1951-1953). The few items from his teaching career at Yale include gradebooks for the years 1907-1955 and reports on the Sheffield Scientific School.

Dates: 1907-1968

Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 426
Abstract:

The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, subject files, minutes, grade books of Richard Foster Flint, and a departmental history documenting the activities and operations of the Yale Department of Geology and Geophysics. Includes mineralogy papers and notebooks of Yale mineralogists Samuel Lewis Penfield, George Jarvis Brush and William Ebenezer Ford. The records also include correspondence relating to Yale's acquisition of Baron Lederer's mineral cabinet.

Dates: 1789-1957

Adolph Knopf papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1253
Abstract:

The major part of the papers consists of reports and maps on the holdings of the Rochester Mines Company in Humboldt County, Nevada (1916-1917). During this period Knopf was on the staff of the U.S. Geological Survey. Also a small amount of professional correspondence and lecture notes, chiefly relating to his career as a professor of geology at Yale University. Eleven of the letters are from Charles Schuchert, a colleague in the department.

Dates: 1916-1942, bulk 1916-1919