The English geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was the founder of the Cambrian system, the first period of the Paleozoic geologic era. Adam Sedgwick was born on March 22, 1785, at Dent in his ancestral region of the Yorkshire Dales. In 1804 he entered...

English geologist and Anglican priest Reverend Adam Sedgwick contributed to the entire scope of geology, but mainly toward defining the Cambrian stratum of the fossil record and trying to show precisely when life originated in geologic time. As an...

1785-1873 British geologist who first established the existence of the Cambrian period of geologic time. One of Britain's elite geologists, the Reverend Sedgewick was the first to define the Cambrian period using fossil evidence unique to that...

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