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SUMMARY:Smith - marks on a landscape
DESCRIPTION:given by Dr Peter Wigley (Consultant for Lynx Information Systems & co-author of Strata. – William Smith’s Geological Maps. \n\nStrata. – William Smith’s Geological Maps cover\nAbstract \nWilliam Smith (1769–1839)\, surveyor and geologist\, was born on 23th March 1769 at The Forge\, Churchill\, Oxfordshire\, the son of the village blacksmith and educated at the village school.\nIn 1787 Smith became assistant to the land surveyor Edward Webb (1751–1828) at Stow-on-the-Wold\,  learning  to  measure  and  value  land. In 1791 the young 22 year old Smith was sent by his employer to survey an estate near High Littleton in Somerset. He made the journey on foot from Stow-on-the-Wold down to Stowey in Somerset\, a distance of over 80 miles. It was in Somerset\, while surveying the course of a canal\, that Smith developed his ideas on strata and the relationship of particular fossils to specific strata. This led to his first geological maps around Bath\, Somerset and later to his pioneering 1815 geological map of England and Wales.However\, there was much more to Smith than just his maps. He made geological cross-sections\, he was a coal finder\, land drainer and improver\, he worked on land slips\, he sunk water wells and built sea defences but most importantly\, through his publications\, he laid the foundations for the science of stratigraphy. \nThrough digital technology it has been possible to combine Smith’s maps and other aspects of his work with modern remote sensing data and to visualise his enduring legacy on the landscape of England and Wales. \nView this talk in the Members’ Section.
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