Memorial to John “Benny” Joseph DeBenedetti 1912–1996 GEORGE B. PICHEL Dana Point, CA[removed]A great geologist has been defined in many ways by many people. My definition of great is the geologist that could

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Memorial to Wallace Lee (1883–1972) DANIEL F. MERRIAM University of Kansas, 1930 Constant Avenue, West Campus, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, USA Wallace Lee was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on 7 April 1883; his father was

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• University of Kansas
• Kansas
• Geologist
• William Thomas Pecora
• William Embry Wrather
• Geology
• Science
• Kansas Geological Survey

Memorial to Ernest W. Blythe Jr[removed]–2005) MICHAEL A. GIBSON Department of Geology, Geography, & Physics; University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, Tennessee 38238, USA Ernie Blythe was a quiet and reserved geologis

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• Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
• University of Tennessee
• Geologist
• Tennessee
• New Madrid Seismic Zone
• Geography of the United States
• United States
• State of Franklin

Memorial to Tor Helge Nilsen (1941–2005) ARTHUR GIBBS SYLVESTER Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA Consulting petroleum geologist Tor Helge Nilsen died 9 October

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• Petroleum in the United States
• Petroleum geology
• Fred Meissner
• Ziad Rafiq Beydoun
• Economic geology
• Geology
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Memorial to Charles Alexander Baskerville (1928–2009) ALLEN W. HATHEWAY University of Missouri (retired), Rolla, Missouri, USA AJITKUMAR SHAH MTA (retired), New York City Transit, 106 Auth Avenue, Iselin, New Jersey 08

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• Planetary science
• Earth
• Geologic map
• Geologist
• Baskerville
• Engineering geologist
• Geology
• Geotechnical engineering
• Engineering geology

Memorial to George Alfred Kiersch (1918–2001) ALLEN W. HATHEWAY Past-Chairman, Engineering Geology Division, Rolla, Missouri, USA JANE HOFFMANN 1545 E. Water Street, Tucson, Arizona, 85719 USA

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• Engineering geology
• Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists
• Military Geology Unit
• Geology
• Geotechnical engineering
• Engineering geologist

Memorial to Noel M. Ravneberg (1916–2002) ALLEN W. HATHEWAY Past-Chairman, Engineering Geology Division, Big Arm, Montana ROBERT M. VALENTINE Consulting Engineering Geologist, Buena Vista, Colorado

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• Year of birth missing
• Noel Pagan

Memorial to Gordon Walter Prescott (1912–2006) ALLEN W. HATHEWAY Professor of Geological Engineering (Retired), “Missouri School of Mines,” and COL, Corps of Engineers, Army of the United States (Retired) TERRY R.

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• Geologist
• Engineering geology
• Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists
• Geology
• Geotechnical engineering
• Engineering geologist

Memorial to Ralph J. Bernhagen 1910–1997 MICHAEL C. HANSEN and THOMAS M. BERG Columbus, Ohio Former Ohio State Geologist Ralph J. Bernhagen died on October 19, 1997, at the age of 87. He was only the ninth

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• Ohio
• United States
• Government

Memorial to William Blake Fergusson 1924–1999 WILLIAM A. CRAWFORD Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania[removed]William Blake “Bill” Fergusson, geologist, and associate professor emeritus, Department of Civil an

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• Engineering geologist
• Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists
• Geology
• Geotechnical engineering
• Engineering geology