Charles Lapworth
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Charles Lapworth was a headteacher and an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.
Charles Lapworth
His school in Galashiels, seen in 2021
Madras College plaque
The Highlands controversy was a scientific controversy which started between British geologists in the middle of the nineteenth century concerning the nature of the rock strata in the Northwest Highla
Charles Lapworth
…beds of north Wales and the Silurian beds of South Wales should be assigned to a new geological period: the Ordovician. He resolved the long running "Highlands Controversy. Lapworth received numerous awards for his research work, while for teaching he used the English Midlands as a setting for demonstrating the fieldwork…
Suilven, Northwest Highlands – Torridonian sandstone standing on a base of Lewisian gneiss
Lewisian gneiss at Assynt
Quartzite summit over sandstone on Beinn Eighe, Torridon
Pipe rock from Assynt