Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873)

This history of Adam Sedgwick, one of several great figures in what has been called the Heroic Age of geology (the time when the great geological time periods were defined and when much exploration and fundamental research was carried out) contains information about his early years, education, and time as Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge. The site also covers his fieldwork in the Lakes District, his work with and disagreement with Roderick Impley Murchison over Silurian and Cambrian strata, and his association with Charles Darwin. The site also explains that although he was converted from the catastrophic explanation for Pleistocene deposits, he could not divorce himself from creationism enough to accept natural selection. Educational levels: High school, Informal education, Undergraduate lower division