William Quarrier Kennedy

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According to Wikipedia, William Quarrier Kennedy FRS FRSE FGS was a Scottish geologist. He specialised in the geology of Scotland and Africa. In authorship he is usually referred to as W. Q. Kennedy. Early life and education Kennedy was born on 30 November 1903 at the William Quarrier School for Orphans in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, where his father, John Gordon Kennedy, was headmaster. He was named after the school's founder. He was educated at his father's school alongside the orphans then at Glasgow High School. He studied agriculture at Glasgow University, graduating BSc in 1926, then did a further degree in geology, graduating BSc in 1927. The latter was under John Walter Gregory. He then undertook further postgraduate studies in geology under Paul Niggli in Zurich.

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The Great Glen Fault (1946) (121)
Trends of differentiation in basaltic magmas (1933) (113)
Zones of Progressive Regional Metamorphism in the Moine Schists of the Western Highlands of Scotland (1949) (71)
Crustal layers and the origin of magmas (1938) (69)
The Tectonics of the Morar Anticline and the Problem of the North-West Caledonian Front (1954) (55)
On the Significance of Thermal Structure in the Scottish Highlands (1948) (50)
V.—The Tectonic Evolution of the Midland Valley of Scotland (1958) (48)
Sedimentary Differentiation as a Factor in the Moine-Torridonian Correlation (1951) (41)
On Composite Lava Flows. (1931) (28)
The Differentiated Dyke of Newmains, Dumfriesshire, and its Contact and Contamination Phenomena (1936) (22)
Optically Uniaxial Titanaugite from Aberdeenshire (1933) (15)
Some Theoretical Factors in Geomorphological Analysis (1962) (13)
The Influence of Chemical Factors on the Crystallization of Hornblende in Igneous Rocks (1935) (11)
The Formation of a Diffusion Reaction Skarn by Pure Thermal Metamorphism (1959) (5)
On Algal Limestones at the Base of the Burdiehouse Limestone, Near Burdiehouse, Midlothian (1946) (4)
African magmatism and tectonics : a volume in honour of W.Q. Kennedy (1970) (3)
Some Caves and a Rock Shelter at Loch Ryan and Port-Patrick, Galloway (1930) (2)
The determination of the feldspars in thin section (1933) (2)
XXII.—Transcurrent Movement exemplified by a Fault in the West Lothian Oil-Shale Field (1945) (1)
An Occurrence of Greenalite-Chert in the Ordovician Rocks of the Southern Uplands of Scotland (1936) (1)
James Ernest Richey, 1886-1968 (1969) (0)
Hydro-Amphibole from South Devon (1936) (0)
African Mineral Resources (1943) (0)
Geomorphology of South Africa (1964) (0)
Salt basins around Africa : proceedings a joint meeting of the Institute of Petroleum and the Geological Society, held at the Institute of Electrical Engineers, London, 3 March 1965 (1965) (0)
Investigation of the Torridonian (1950) (0)

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