W. B. R. King
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Bernard Robinson King was a British geologist. Education King was educated at the University of Cambridge graduating a first-class Honours degree in geology in 1912 Career He joined the British Geological Survey and distinguished himself on field studies in Wales. In 1914 he was commissioned as a second-lieutenant in the Territorial Army and in 1915 was rapidly trained as a hydrologist and sent to France to assist the Chief Engineer of the British Expeditionary Force establish potable water supplies from boreholes. He has been called "the first British military hydrogeologist"
W. B. R. King's Published Works
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- The Pleistocene Succession in the Lower parts of the Thames Valley (1936) (83)
- The Geological History of the English Channel (1954) (48)
- Seismic prospecting in the English Channel and its geological interpretation (1953) (36)
- Geological Work on the Western Front (1919) (33)
- The Geology of the District around Meifod, Montgomeryshire (1928) (31)
- Cambrian Fossils from the Dead Sea (1923) (30)
- Pleistocene Geology (1957) (29)
- The Upper Ordovician Rocks of the South-Western Berwyn Hills (1923) (29)
- The Lower Palæozoic Rocks of Austwick and Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Yorkshire (1934) (28)
- The Pleistocene Epoch in England (1955) (27)
- Definition the Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary (1949) (20)
- On the Lower Part of the Ashgillian Series in the North of England (1948) (19)
- Notes on the Cambrian Fauna of Persia (1930) (15)
- The geology of the eastern part of the English Channel (1948) (15)
- Age of the Baker's Hole Coombe Rock, Northfleet, Kent (1945) (13)
- II.—A New Trilobite from the Millstone Grit of North Yorkshire (1914) (13)
- A Fossiliferous Limestone associated with Ingletonian Beds at Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Yorkshire (1932) (9)
- THE RECORDING OF HYDROGEOLOGICAL DATA (1951) (9)
- The Surface of the Marls of the Middle Chalk in the Somme Valley and the Neighbouring Districts of Northern France, and the Effect on the Hydrology (1921) (8)
- Floor of the English Channel (1950) (6)
- Notes on the Pleistocene Deposits of the Cambridge District (1928) (5)
- Further Notes on the Huntingdon Road Gravels, Cambridge (1932) (5)
- Pleistocene Marine Gravels at Eye, Northamptonshire (1928) (5)
- Sedgwick Museum Notes: Notes on the Genus Sphaerocoryphe (1920) (4)
- Summer field meeting in the Lake District (1954) (4)
- The Yorkshire Dales. The summer field meeting, 1933 (1933) (4)
- Iranoleesia, New Trilobite Name (1955) (4)
- Geological Work on the Western Front: Discussion (1919) (3)
- An historical account of the heathen gods and heroes, necessary for the understanding of the ancient poets (1967) (2)
- SOME PERIGLACIAL PROBLEMS (1950) (2)
- THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE RIVER SYSTEM (1935) (2)
- Easter field meeting, 1937. Oswestry (1937) (1)
- Pleistocene Sections at Barrington (1952) (1)
- Caen University Geology Department (1944) (0)
- Hydrology: Darcy Symposia (1957) (0)
- The Determination of Gradients on Enemy-Held Beaches: Discussion (1947) (0)
- Remarks on pebbles from the deep Atlantic and on the structure of the English Channel (1954) (0)
- Caen University Geology Department (1944) (0)
- The History Of The British Flora. H. Godwin. Cambridge, The University Press, 1956. 384 pages, 119 text-figures, 26 pages of plates, 28.5 cm. Price £4 10s. 0d. (1957) (0)
- Wave-Trough Experiments on Beach Profiles: Discussion (1943) (0)
- Field meeting at Barrington, near Cambridge (1944) (0)
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