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Geomorphology Of The Southern Appalachians; Volume 6, Pages 63-126 Of National Geographic Magazine
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Charles Willard Hayes, Marius Robinson Campbell
Published by the National Geographic Society, 1894
Geomorphology
Reconnaissance of the Borax Deposits of Death Valley and Mohave Desert
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Marius Robinson Campbell, American geologist and physiographer, investigated coal resources in Tennessee, studied coal fields in the Appalachian states and later shifted to western coals.
Background
Marius Robinson Campbell was born on September 30, 1858 in Garden Grove, Iowa, United States; the younger of two children and only son of Alvah W. and Eliza (Davis) Campbell. William Marshall, his great-grandfather on both paternal and maternal sides, was a Quaker from England who was virtually forced to leave Pennsylvania when the Revolution began because as a conscientious objector he would not fight. He moved to South Carolina, where James Campbell, a Scotsman, and Isaac Davis, a Welshman, became his sons-in-law. Later, the Campbells and Davises moved to Ohio and settled southeast of Cleveland. There, through their children, the two families became even more closely knit, Alvah Campbell, in 1852, marrying his cousin Eliza Davis. After a sojourn in Iowa, where their son was born, they returned to Ohio, where the elder Campbell bought a small farm. Severe asthma, however, soon restricted his activity to light carpentry, and the farm work fell mostly upon the growing boy.
Education
Marius attended school whenever feasible and later a Cleveland business college, where diligence earned him a professorship. He resigned after a year, in 1885, and arranged to study railroad construction at Ohio State University, where he was enrolled in 1885-86. Selecting geology among his courses, he became inspired by Prof. Edward Orton, state geologist and pioneer in petroleum geology, to work in that field.
Career
After a short interval of railroad construction and further teaching in a business college, Campbell was employed at Orton's suggestion as a field assistant in the United States Geological Survey and, reporting for duty on July 1, 1888, began his real career. His first chief was Charles Willard Hayes, who quickly recognized his earnestness and ability and gave him friendly counsel and training. In 1890 Campbell was placed in charge of a party investigating coal resources in Tennessee, and for the next thirteen years he carried on intensive studies of coal fields in the Appalachian states. Constantly growing as a scientist, in 1900 he was given supervision of a new program of detailed studies of coal, oil, and gas fields in western Pennsylvania under the joint sponsorship of the federal and state governments, a program which resulted in the employment of new techniques and the issuing of a number of outstanding folios and bulletins. In 1904 Campbell's activities shifted to western coals, at first through important committee work at the fuel-testing plant in St. Louis. In 1906 he became head of a new unit of the Geological Survey created to make a systematic study and appraisal of the 64, 000, 000 acres of western public lands which, under President Theodore Roosevelt, had been withdrawn from entry pending determination of their coal values. In this arduous assignment Campbell showed conspicuous administrative capacity. He developed a vigorous geologic group who, during the next few years, mapped vast areas and prepared many reports on the location, quality, and amounts of coal, information later summarized in a masterly report (1909) by Campbell and E. W. Parker. Thus Congress and the public were given the first authoritative estimate of the nation's coal resources. Meanwhile, Campbell remained active in other fields. In 1908 he suggested to the Geological Survey a series of popular guidebooks describing the geology along principal transcontinental railroads; and when the series was begun in 1915 he prepared two of the volumes himself. Until 1916 he was vice-chairman of the Survey's Geologic Names Committee, and he was for some years chairman of its Physiographic Committee, which sought to secure greater uniformity in the definition and use of physiographic terms, a topic in which he was deeply interested. During the decade before his retirement, in 1932, he engaged chiefly in physiographic studies but found time for other projects, such as compiling a geologic map of Wyoming. A hundred technical reports came from Campbell's pen, half of them appearing in Geological Survey publications.
Already a severe sufferer from asthma, Campbell was seriously affected in 1935 by the accidental escape of ammonia from a refrigerator. He spent his remaining years in Florida, where he died at Pinellas Park. He was buried in Florida.
Achievements
He was president of the Association of American Geographers (1927) and of the Society of Economic Geologists (1930).
He also suggested a series of popular guidebooks describing the geology along principal transcontinental railroads.
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Personality
Of medium height, stocky, scrupulously neat, he was physically vigorous until chronic asthma eventually interfered with field work. He had an alert mind and an unusually systematic and orderly temperament. With his personal dignity and a strong official conscience, he was earlier regarded by subordinates as somewhat overstrict, though generally fair and ready to advise. With passing years he became mellower and more genial.
Connections
On November 5, 1890, Campbell married Margaret Stevenson of Middletown, New York. Their only child, a daughter, died in infancy.
