Reverend Adam Sedgwick
1785-1873
British geologist who first established the existence of the Cambrian period of geologic time. One of Britain's elite geologists, the Reverend Sedgewick was the...
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Sedgwick, Reverend Adam (1785-1873)
English geologist and Anglican priest
Reverend Adam Sedgwick contributed to the entire scope of geology, but mainly toward defining the Cambrian stratum of the foss...
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The English geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was the founder of the Cambrian system, the first period of the Paleozoic geologic era.Adam Sedgwick was born on March 22, 1785, at Dent in his ancestra...
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Reverend Adam Sedgwick
Sedgwick, Reverend Adam (1785-1873)
Adam Sedgwick