Abstract
Distant Thunder: Credit where credit is due
Highlights
On 1 August 1842, while Phillips was busy showing Murchison and other geologists around to explain his theories, Anne, who was staying with her brother in Malvern, went out in the field and found broken blocks of the conglomerate
Phillips based his case on the fact that where the Silurian sediments are found in contact with the volcanics, they are not affected by metamorphism
My Sister, knowing the interest I felt in tracing out the history of the stratification visible in these trap [volcanic] hills, sought diligently for organic remains in the midst of and on the western flanks of the sienitic [syenitic] masses of the North hill and Sugar-loaf hill
Summary
On 1 August 1842, while Phillips was busy showing Murchison and other geologists around to explain his theories, Anne, who was staying with her brother in Malvern, went out in the field and found broken blocks of the conglomerate. One who did was the geologist John Phillips [1800-1874], the orphaned nephew of William Smith [1769-1839]. Smith paid for John’s schooling and introduced him to the science of geology.
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