March 13, 1920, died on this day British artist turned geologist Charles Lapworth - here seen with geology students on a field-trip in 1896
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Lapworth was born in Faringdon, Berkshire, and trained as a school teacher in Oxfordshire, his main interests at that time being literature, history, art and music.
Lapworth’s interest in geology started shortly after his move to Scotland
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Although largely self-taught in the subject, he soon began to make significant contributions.
In 1879 his studies helped to to resolve a dispute between Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in North Wales in the Cambrian and Silurian systems, respectively
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Lapworth recognized that the fossil fauna in the disputed strata were different from those of either the Cambrian or the Silurian systems, and placed them in a system of their own
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