The geology of Morgan county, (Missouri. Bureau of geology and mines Reports vol. VII, 2d ser)
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Soils of the United States. (Edition, 1913.); Volume No.96
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The Evolution of the Northern Part of the Lowlands of South-Eastern Missouri
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Curtis F. Marbut was an American geologist and soil expert.
Background
Curtis Fletcher Marbut was born on July 19, 1863 at Verona, Lawrence County, Mo. His great-grandfather, Johannas Marepot the family name appears in Americanized form as Marpert, Marpord, Marput, and Marbut was a native of Hanover and emigrated to America in 1784, settling in Newberry County, S. C. One of his sons, Philip, moved to Giles County, Tenn. , in 1830 and some eleven years later to Barry County, Mo. Philip's son, Nathan Thomas, married Jane Browning, of an English Puritan family that had emigrated to Virginia in 1622, and Curtis was the third child and second son of their nine children.
Education
After attending countryschools and Cassville Academy he taught school for several years and then entered the University of Missouri, from which he was graduated with the degree of B. S. in 1889. Following another year of teaching he worked from 1890 to 1893 for the Missouri Geological Survey. He next spent two years at Harvard, studying geology and physiography, and in 1894 he was awarded the degree of A. M.
Career
Returning to the University of Missouri, he served as instructor in geology and mineralogy, 1895-97; as assistantprofessor, 1897-99; and as professor and curator of the museum of geology, 1899-1913. In 1905 he became director of the soil survey of Missouri and a cooperator of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1910 he was appointed scientist in the soil survey, Washington, and in 1913, its chief. For twenty years Marbut dominated the group engaged in mapping the soils of the United States, and for the last fifteen of these he was one of a small group of scientists from many lands, who, working together, developed an international system of knowledge based on the study of soils, which they called pedology and believed to be fundamentally significant "to the economic reconstruction of the world. " When Marbut appeared in Washington the soil problem in America had been approached by two groups of students the agronomists, who considered it from the point of view of crops and paid little attention to origin and structure, and the geologists, whose interest was chiefly in soil materials and the inorganic forces back of them. In Russia, however, K. D. Glinka had published a study of soil groups with the soil profile as the basis of classification, a work which Marbut translated from the German version and published under the title The Great Soil Groups of the World and Their Development (1927). Marbut's main endeavor was to bring the abovementioned groups together, putting into American soil surveys such ideas as would integrate them with the international schemes of classification then developing. In pursuit of this program he traveled widely in every part of the United States, adding to his experiences in western Europe surveys in Central and South America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Russia. He attended international conferences at Prague, Danzig, Rome, Moscow, and Oxford. His most extensive publication was "Soils of the United States" (1935), the fifth part of the Atlas of American Agriculture, a work which furnished a fundamental basis for future studies of American soils. He was a member of many scientific societies and served as chairman of important committees. He died on August 25, 1935 of pneumonia on the way at Harbin.
Achievements
Marbut served as Director of the Soil Survey Division from 1913 until his death in 1935. Marbut developed the first formal soil classification scheme for the United States. In 1930 he was awarded the Cullum medal by the American Geographical Society for geographic work on soils, the "foothold of all things. "
Marbut was essentially a lone worker who set his associates an example of continuous application to the tasks before them. Although he seemed to enjoy contact with fellow scientists and moved comfortably in any company in his later years, he rarely sought social relations. At the age of seventy-two he accepted the commission to make a reconnaissance survey of the soils of China and turned his face to the Orient with plans that would have taken years to complete.
Connections
He married, December 17, 1891, Florence Martin of Cassville, Mo. , by whom he had five children Louise, Thomas, William, Helen, and Frederick.
