Talk:Clarence Dutton

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Espresso Addict 01:10, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mostly done, Pete Tillman (talk) 20:38, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"In 1875 he began work as a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey"

U.S. Geological Survey was created by an act of Congress on March 3, 1879, so it could not employ Dutton in 1875. Avihu (talk) 20:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a dubious tag for this dispute, I also ran across another possible discrepancy as the terms a-a and pahoehoe were both utilized in non-native Hawaiian language peer-reviewed journals, decades before his reported hiring at the USGS, and subsequent "coining of the two terms." speednat (talk) 23:49, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

For this, please see [1] or Series 2, Volume 28; 1859, of the American Journal of Science by Robert C. Haskell. speednat (talk) 23:52, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've modified the statement about the USGS to specify after 1879, and added a cite supporting the claim that he was part of the survey after it was organized. Confirmed that "pahoehoe" and "aa" were used in geologic publications well before Dutton; that statement I've removed entirely. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 18:27, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]