Sedgwick Bay

Sedgwick Bay (52˚38'00" 131˚34'00" S side of Lyell I, off E side of Moresby I, QCI), Sedgwick Point (52˚36'00" 131˚33'00" W entrance to Sedgwick Bay). Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), born in Yorkshire, was a professor of geology at Cambridge Univ, 1818–70, and president of the Geological Society, 1829–31. He spent much time studying rock stratification in N Wales and elsewhere in Europe, often with famed geologist Roderick Murchison, and came up with a system for classifying the rocks of...

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