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Sedgwick | Adam | 1785-1873 | geologist and professor of geology ...
Adam Sedgwick's lectures on Geology proved extremely popular despite being optional. This had a large impact on the shaping of English educated opinion on Geology.
Adam Sedgwick, Dent
Photo of the memorial to Adam Sedgwick in the village of Dent in Cumbria. Brief details of the 'Sedgwick Geological Trail'.

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Sedgwick, Adam (1785-1873), British geologist, who helped to lay the scientific foundations of the science. He was born in Dent, Westmorland (now in Cumbria), and educated at the University of Cambridge, where he subsequently became Professor of Geology. His field studies of rock strata in the British Isles and Europe, sometimes with the British geologist Roderick Impey Murchison, served to identify the Cambrian period of geological time.