Ebenizer Emmons (May 16, 1799, Middlefield, Massachusetts, USA - October 1, 1863, Brunswick, North Carolina, ibid.) - American geologist.
| Ebenizer Emmons | |
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| English Ebenezer emmons | |
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| Date of Birth | May 16, 1799 |
| Place of Birth | Middlefield , Massachusetts , USA |
| Date of death | October 1, 1863 (64 years old) |
| A place of death | Brunswick , North Carolina , USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | geologist |
| Awards and prizes | [d] |
He studied medicine in Albany after receiving a degree for several years, had medical practice in Berkshire County. His interest in geology arose as a young man, and in 1824 he assisted Professor Chester Dewey (1784–1867) in preparing a geological map of Berkshire County, in which the first attempt was made to classify the rocks of the Taconique region. Since natural science occupied most of his time, he switched to professional work in the field of natural sciences and geology at Williams College, and also became a professor of chemistry and subsequently obstetrics at Albany Medical College. The main work in his life was, however, geology, and he was later named by Jules Marc “the founder of the American Paleozoic stratigraphy and the first explorer of the original fauna in the world."
In 1836, he became an employee of the Geological Survey of the State of New York and after a long study grouped local reservoirs (1842) into the Taconica and the upstream New York reservoir system. The latter system was divided into several groups, which were not fully described at that time. Emmons previously described the Potsdam sandstone (1838), which he placed at the base of the New York system (now known as Upper Cambrian ). In 1844, Emmons first discovered the fossils of the Tacononian system: this was a famous discovery, since the discovered species differed from all the then-known Paleozoic fossils and were regarded as representatives of the native local fauna. From 1851 to 1860, he was the chief geologist of North Carolina .
- This article (section) contains text taken (translated) from the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica , which went into the public domain .