Article ID: CBB081481552

Hartley Travers Ferrar (1879-1932) and his geological legacy in antarctica, Egypt and New Zealand (2019)

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Hartley Travers Ferrar was the geologist on Scott's first expedition to the Antarctic (the ‘Discovery’ Expedition) in 1901–1904. Ferrar undertook the first geological surveys in the Transantarctic Mountains, which he mapped to 83°S, and made some discoveries of major scientific importance, such as fossil leaves, later identified as Glossopteris indica. He then worked in Egypt, Palestine and New Zealand, and was Acting Director of the New Zealand Geological Survey when he died suddenly in 1932. Little has been acknowledged about Ferrar's other contributions to geology, which were vast, and included pioneering work on irrigation and hydrogeology in Egypt, as well as a series of geological mapping campaigns in New Zealand. The latter extended to systematic soil surveys in New Zealand, in particular in Central Otago, where soil types and their properties were characterized in the field and laboratory. This paper outlines some of Ferrar's key contributions to New Zealand geoscience, as well as some of his notable overseas achievements.

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Authors & Contributors
Nicole C. Lautze
Alice Kim
Albuquerque, Sara
Carneiro, Ana
Català Gorgues, Jesús Ignasi
Klemun, Marianne
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Archives of Natural History
Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of Historical Geography
Publishers
Mariner Books
Tempus
Unicopli
University of Minnesota Press
Concepts
Earth sciences
Geology
Maps; atlases
Explorers and Exploration
Biographies
Stratigraphy
People
Smith, William
Bailey, Edgar Henry Summerfield
Bruce, William Speirs
Darwin, Charles Robert
Humboldt, Alexander von
Simonys, Friedrich
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Antarctica
Great Britain
Hawaii (U.S.)
England
Africa
Alps (Europe)
Institutions
Geological Society of America
Great Britain. Geological Survey
Great Britain. Royal Engineers
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