Background
Flint, Richard Foster was born on March 1, 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Nott William and Edith Burnham (Foster) Flint.
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Physical Geology
(Here is the successor to a long line of physical geology ...)
Here is the successor to a long line of physical geology texts from Longwell, Flint and Skinner. While retaining their authoritativeness and logical organization on elementary topics (landforms, rocks, minerals), it integrates current thinking on processes (plate techtonics, chemical cycles, changes throughout geologic time). It is a well-illustrated introduction to investigations into the way the earth works, how mountains are formed, how the atmosphere, hydrosphere, crust and mantle interact with each other. Treatments on climate, paleoclimatology and landscape evolution are unique to this book, as is the depth of discussion on how greatly human activity affects geological interactions. Discusses K/Tertiary boundary and subsea volcanoes.
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Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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- State Geological and Natural History Survey (Buy State Geological and Natural History Survey on Amazon...)
Richard Foster Flint
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Richard Foster Flint, American geologist. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society American, Arctic Institute North America (governor 1945, chairman 1950), American Academy Arts and Sciences; member American Geophysical Union, Glaciol. Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi; member International Union Quaternary Research; member geological societies Edinburgh, London, Stockholm, Finland, and Argentina.
Education
Bachelor of Science, University Chicago, 1922, Doctor of Philosophy., 1925. A.M. (honorary), Yale, 1945. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Dublin, 1963.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Wroclaw, Poland, 1966.
Career
Thereafter he taught at Yale University, where he was named professor of geology in 1945. He became chairman of the board of the Geochronometric Laboratory in 1950. Flint also became a senior geologist for the United States Geological Survey in 1946 and served on state geological surveys of Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, and Connecticut. He was senior scientist on the Louise Arner Boyd Arctic Expedition in 1937. Flint is recognized as an authority on the geology of the North American arctic regions. He wrote Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch (1947) and was chairman of the compilation committee of the Glacial Map of North America (1945). He became an associate editor of the American Journal of Science in 1930. He collaborated in writing An Introduction to Physical Geology (1955).
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Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
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Physical Geology
(Here is the successor to a long line of physical geology ...)
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State Geological and Natural History Survey
(Buy State Geological and Natural History Survey on Amazon...)
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Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch
Membership
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society American, Arctic Institute North America (governor 1945, chairman 1950), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Geophysical Union, Glaciol. Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Member International Union Quaternary Research. Member geological societies Edinburgh, London, Stockholm, Finland, and Argentina.
Connections
Married Margaret Cecil Haggott, December 29, 1926.
