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Edwin Butt Eckel
1906-1989
President 1950, 1951. Honorary member 1960
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Geologist, U. S. Geological
Survey, 1930-1984. Geologic editor, Geological Society of America,
1968-1969; Executive Secretary, Geological Society of America, 1970-1974
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Distinguished engineering
geologists, administrator, and editor. many publications on
geology of Colorado, minerals of Colorado, Alaska earthquake, geology of
Paraguay, quicksilver ore deposits, brown iron ores of eastern Texas,
groundwater and geology of northeastern Arizona, engineering geology
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Educated at Lafayette
College, University of Arizona, Colorado School of Mines
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President of Colorado
Scientific Society, two years in a row. Distinguished Service
Award, U.S. Department of Interior, 1965. Medallion of Merit,
University of Arizona, 1960; Honor award of Colorado Engineering Council
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Fellow, Geological Society
of America; Honorary Fellow, Geological Society of London; Fellow,
Mineralogical Society of America
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Honorary member:
Association of Earth Science Editors; Association of Engineering
Geologists; New Mexico Geological Society; Colorado Engineering Council.
Member: Society of Economic Geologists; Geological Society of Washington
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Loved to garden
from Presidents of the
Colorado Scientific Society
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