Alfred Woodford
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American geologist
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Alfred Woodford's Degrees
- PhD Geology Stanford University
Why Is Alfred Woodford Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alfred Oswald Woodford was an American geologist. He was the founding director of the geology department at Pomona College, where he taught for four decades. He was nicknamed "Woody". Early life and education Woodford was born in Upland, California, on February 27, 1890, to a family of successful citrus farmers. He moved with his family to neighboring Claremont in 1909, and graduated from Pomona College with a degree in chemistry in 1913. He subsequently pursued graduate work in soil chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his doctorate in 1921.
Alfred Woodford's Published Works
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Published Works
- Principles of Geology (1969) (692)
- Origin and Environment of Source Sediments of Petroleum (1933) (57)
- SERIAL LITERATURE USED BY AMERICAN GEOLOGISTS. (1931) (49)
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California. (1949) (42)
- STREAM GRADIENTS AND MONTEREY SEA VALLEY (1951) (38)
- THE COLLOIDAL CONSTITUENTS OF CALIFORNIA SOILS (1939) (21)
- Bentonitic magnesian clay mineral from California (1936) (21)
- Siliceous Tuff Clasts in the Upper Paleogene of Southern California (1968) (18)
- Geological reconnaissance across Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California (1938) (17)
- The Admirable Discourses of Bernard Palissy (1958) (17)
- The Evidence of the Kimberlite Pipes on the Constitution of the Outer Part of the Earth (1930) (16)
- Transverse Ranges Province: A Unique Structural-Petrochemical Belt across the San Andreas Fault System (1974) (16)
- Pliocene-Pleistocene History of the Perris Block, Southern California (1971) (15)
- Geology of the northwestern Puente Hills, Los Angeles County, California (1949) (15)
- The San Quintin volcanic field, Lower California (1928) (12)
- COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE COLLOIDS OF A CECIL AND A SUSQUEHANNA SOIL PROFILE (1939) (12)
- Section across Commercial quarry, Crestmore, California (1941) (9)
- Rhomboid ripple mark (1935) (9)
- Geology and oil possibilities of Puente and San Jose Hills, California (1944) (8)
- Paleogeographic Significance of Metatuff Boulders in Middle Tertiary Strata, Santa Ana Mountains, California (1972) (7)
- Curvature of the San Andreas fault, California (1976) (6)
- The floor of the Los Angeles basin, Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino Counties, California (1951) (6)
- On the Different Issues of the First Geological Map of England and Wales (1940) (5)
- Miocene Conglomerates of Puente and San Jose Hills, California (1946) (4)
- Early Tertiary Conglomerates of the Santa Ana Mountains, California (1980) (3)
- Serial Literature Used by American Geologists, 1967 (1969) (3)
- Johannes Walther's Law of the Correlation of Facies: Discussion (1973) (3)
- Los Angeles Erosion Surface of Middle Cretaceous Age (1977) (2)
- Methods for heavy mineral investigations (2)
- Hydrous iron sulphide in California crystalline limestone (1940) (2)
- Origin and History of Oxygen in the Air (1972) (2)
- What is Geologic TRUTH (1956) (1)
- Alexander von Humboldt. L. Kellner. Oxford University Press, New York, 1963. viii + 247 pp. Illus. $5.75 (1963) (1)
- Floor of Los Angeles Basin: ABSTRACT (1949) (0)
- [Review of] A Textbook of geomorphology by Philip George George Worcester, 1939 (1939) (0)
- Back Matter (1945) (0)
- Curvature of the San Andreas fault, California: Comment and reply REPLY (1977) (0)
- The Habitable Earth. Ronald Fraser. Basic Books, New York, 1965. 155 pp. Illus. $4.50 (1965) (0)
- Earth Sciences: The Habitable Earth . Ronald Fraser. Basic Books, New York, 1965. 155 pp. Illus. $4.50. (1965) (0)
- MEMORIAL TO WILLIAM SIDNEY TANGIER SMITH (1869-1962) (1963) (0)
- British Scientists: Charles Lyell ( British Men of Science , vol. 1. Sir Gavin de Beer, General Editor). Sir Edward Bailey. Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1963. x + 214 pp. Illus. $3.95. (1963) (0)
- Type Locality of a Fault: GEOLOGICAL NOTES (0)
- Catastrophism and Evolution (1971) (0)
- A Textbook of Geology. L. V. Pirsson , Charles Schuchert (1931) (0)
- A Classic of Sedimentary Petrology: NOTES (0)
- Pioneer Geologists: GEOLOGICAL NOTES (1949) (0)
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