Florence Bascom
American geologist
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Florence Bascom's Degrees
- PhD Geology Johns Hopkins University
Why Is Florence Bascom Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Florence Bascom was an American pioneer for women as a geologist and educator. Bascom became an anomaly in the 19th century when she earned two bachelor's degrees. Earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1882, and a Bachelor of Science in 1884 both at the University of Wisconsin. Shortly after, in 1887, Bascom earned her master's degree in geology at the University of Wisconsin. Bascom was the second woman to earn her PhD in geology in the United States, in 1893. Receiving her PhD from Johns Hopkins University, this made her the first woman to earn a degree at the institution. After earning her doctorate in geology, in 1896 Bascom became the first woman to work for the United States Geological Survey as well as being one of the first women to earn a master's degree in geology. Bascom was known for her innovative findings in this field, and led the next generation of female geologists. Geologists consider Bascom to be the "first woman geologist in America".
Florence Bascom's Published Works
Published Works
- Geology and mineral resources of the Honeybrook and Phoenixville quadrangles, Pennsylvania (1938) (20)
- The Geology of Mount Desert Island (18)
- Cycles of Erosion in the Piedmont Province of Pennsylvania (1921) (12)
- Piedmont district of Pennsylvania (8)
- Geology and mineral resources of the Quakertown-Doylestown district, Pennsylvania and New Jersey (1931) (5)
- Fairfield-Gettysburg folio, Pennsylvania (4)
- Geomorphology of the central Appalachians (1932) (4)
- The Structures, Origin, and Nomenclature of the Acid Volcanic Rocks of South Mountain (1893) (4)
- Origin and structure of the Pensauken gravel (1933) (4)
- Philadelphia folio, Norristown, Germantown, Chester, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware (3)
- Elkton-Wilmington folio; Maryland-Delaware-New Jersey-Pennsylvania (3)
- The resuscitation of the term Bryn Mawr gravel (3)
- A Pre-Tertiary Nepheline-Bearing Rock (1896) (1)
- Coatesville-West Chester folio, Pennsylvania-Delaware (1932) (1)
- GEOMORPHIC NOMENCLATURE. (1)
- Philadelphia folio : Norristown, Germantown, Chester, and Philadelphia quadrangles, Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware (0)
- CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SALT LAKE CITY. (1889) (0)
- Projection of Microscopic Slides-For Demonstration or Photography. (1934) (0)
- Volcanics of Neponset valley, Massachusetts (0)
- Anhydrite twin from Aussee (1907) (0)
- Geomorphic Nomenclature (1931) (0)
- The pre-Cambrian igneous rocks of eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland (1935) (0)
- Trenton folio, New Jersey-Pennsylvania (0)
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