William Morris Davis
1850-1934
American geoscientist whose career and scientific contributions spanned the disciplines of meteorology, geology, and physical geography. In the latter field Davis'...
Read more
Davis, William Morris (1850-1934)
American geologist
William Morris Davis was a geographer, meteorologist, and geologist who devised a relative method of determining the age of a river system. Davis&#...
Read more
The American geographer and geologist William Morris Davis (1850-1934) formulated a concept of the cycle of erosion, but his theories of landscape evolution are now sharply contested.Of Quaker stock, ...
Read more