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Thomas Wayland Vaughan

Dr. Thomas Wayland Vaughan was a geologist, paleontologist, and oceanographer . Educated at Harvard (AB, AM, PhD), he was an authority on marine sediments, fossil and recent corals, and American Tertiary stratigraphy. He was a researcher with the United States Geological Survey (1894-1939), and then joined the United States National Museum where he served as Custodian of Madreporian Corals (1903–23), an Associate in Marine Sediments (1924-1942), and as an Associate in Paleontology (1942-1952). He was also Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1924-1936. His research focused on the study of corals and coral reefs, the investigation of larger foraminifera, and oceanography. Under his directorship, Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California, became a leading oceanographical research center.

U.S. geologist, paleontologist, and cnidariologist (1870–1952)

Born	1870-09-20
Died	1952-01-16

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Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies.

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1919 — 3 editions
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Research facilities at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1933 — 2 editions

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American Old and Middle Tertiary larger Foraminifera and corals.

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1945 — 2 editions

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A Brief Contribution to the Geology and Paleontology of Northwestern Louisiana

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1896 — 2 editions
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Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the Canal Zone, Panama, and geologically related areas in Central America and the West Indies.

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1919 — 2 editions
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A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican republic

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1921 — 2 editions
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A new species of Eocene coral, Archohelia clarki, from California

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1927 — 2 editions

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Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1907 — 2 editions

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Criteria and status of correlation and classification of Tertiary deposits

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1924 — 1 edition

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Some shoal-water bottom samples from Murray Island, Australia, and comparisons of them with samples from Florida and the Bahamas

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan, Richard B. Dole, Roger C. Wells, and Alfred A. Chambers First published in 1918 — 1 edition

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Fossil corals from Lesser Antilles and Porto Rico: monographs of Stylophoridae, Orbicellidae, Astreopora, Actinacis, Goniopora

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1903 — 1 edition
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A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican republic

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1921 — 1 edition

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Un reconocimiento geológico de la República dominicana

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1922 — 1 edition

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Fossil Echini Of The West Indies; Stratigraphic Significance Of The Species Of West Indian Fossil Echini

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 2007 — 1 edition

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The biologic character and geologic correlation of the sedimentary formations of Panama in their relation to the geologic history of Central America and the West Indies

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contribution to the geologic history of the Floridian plateau

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1910 — 1 edition
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Corals from the Cannonball marine member of the Lance formation

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1920 — 1 edition

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Descriptions of new species of Foraminifera of the genus Discocyclina from the Eocene of Mexico

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1929 — 1 edition

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The geologic work of mangroves in southern Florida

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1910 — 1 edition

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International aspects of oceanography: oceanographic data and provisions for oceanographic research

by Thomas Wayland Vaughan First published in 1937 — 1 edition
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U.S. geologist, paleontologist, and cnidariologist (1870–1952)

Born	1870-09-20
Died	1952-01-16

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OLID: OL115403A
ISNI: 0000000081565193
Library of Congress Names: n85173500
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Wikidata: Q1763339
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Thomas Wayland Vaughan