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CodePX1750
Dates1871-1950
Person NameRastall; Robert Heron (1871-1950); Geologist
SurnameRastall
ForenamesRobert Heron
EpithetGeologist
Activity1906 - 1913 elected to a fellowship at Christ's College, Oxford. 1926 re-elected to supernumerary fellowship. 1910 appointed as a demonstrator in Department of Geology at Oxford University. 1919 promoted to lecturer in economic geology. 1926 awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. 1946 awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London.
From 1906 - 1913 he travelled the continent and in 1910 he visited South Africa. 1919 he assumed joint editorship of Geological Magazine and took over full responsibility in 1921.
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DF/ZOO/252/1/15/23Rastall, Robert Heron (Cambridge) 
DF/MIN/20/35/124Committee on Petrographic Nomenclature: letters to Campbell Smith (Secretary) from Arthur Holmes, Robert H Rastall and others 
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