Roderick Murchison

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (February 19, 1792 – October 22, 1871), was an influential Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian era.

References

King of Siluria — How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology John L. Morton 2004. ISBN 0-9546829-0-4 Brocken Spectre Publishing

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• The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists (1985) Martin J. S. Rudwick (University of Chicago Press) — the rise of Murchison to power
• Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (1986) by James A. Secord (Princeton University Press) — documents the battle between Murchison and Adam Sedgwick.