Clarence Edward Dutton (May 15, 1841 – January 4, 1912) was an American geologist and US Army officer. Dutton was born in Wallingford, Connecticut on May 15, 1841. He graduated from Yale College in 1860 and took postgraduate courses there until 1862, when he enlisted in the 21st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry; he fought at Fredericksburg ...

With Gilbert and Powell, Dutton helped to open the geological and geomorphic story of the American West.

Clarence Edward Dutton (born May 15, 1841, Wallingford, Conn., U.S.—died Jan. 4, 1912, Englewood, N.J.) was an American geologist and pioneer seismologist who developed and named the principle of isostasy.

May 29, 2018 · Dutton, Clarence Edward (1841–1912) An officer in the US Army, Dutton was seconded to the US Geological Survey. He introduced the term ‘ isostasy ’, a concept for which he saw evidence in the Colorado plateau.

Jan 1, 2007 · Dutton was a career soldier who fought in the American Civil War and remained with the US Army Ordnance Corps to his retirement in 1901. Despite military obligations, Dutton developed a profound interest in geology and, on secondment first to the Powell Survey and later to the fledgling US Geological Survey, made important contributions to ...

Clarence Edward Dutton (1841–1912), a Yale University graduate, served in the Civil War and, as a captain in the United States Army, was detailed for duty with John Wesley Powell's U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, and later, the U. S. Geological Survey.

May 15, 2017 · Clarence Dutton, an American geologist, was born May 15, 1841. In 1875, Dutton went to work for John Wesley Powell, the one-armed explorer who had just been the first to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Clarence Edward Dutton (May 15, 1841 – January 4, 1912) was an American geologist and US Army officer. Dutton was born in Wallingford, Connecticut on May 15, 1841.

Jan 1, 2017 · Dutton studied the effects of the catastrophic Charleston earthquake of 31 August 1886 and later engaged in irrigation research in the American West. Dutton critically reviewed many major geological concepts, including the causes of …

Apr 22, 2009 · Born in Connecticut in 1841, the son of a shoemaker, Clarence Dutton graduated from Yale at age 15. His years in the military took him to Washington, D.C., where he met Major Powell. Dutton accepted a detail to the U.S. Geological Survey, and spent much of the next fifteen years in Utah and Arizona.