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| Online Publication Date: 05 Nov 2007
William Christian Krumbein: Father of Mathematical Geology
William Christian Krumbein: Father of Mathematical Geology
Page Range: 374 – 383
Willliam Christian Krumbein (1902-1979) is remembered by one of his former graduate students for his remarkable discipline, productivity, and dedication to his students. Krumbein published extensively in sediment analysis, stratigraphic analysis, and statistical methodology in geology.
Merriam, D. F., William C. Krumbein., Obituary for Geological Society of America, 2000.
Merriam, D. F., William C. Krumbein (1902-1979), in Encyclopedia on Sediments, ed. Gerry Middleton (Dordrecht, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003).
Howland, A. L., William C. Krumbein: The Making of a Methodologist, in Quantitative Studies in the Geological Sciences, a Memoir in Honor of William C. Krumbein, ed. E. H. T. Whitten, Geological Society of America Memoir 142, 1975, xi-xviii.
Whitten, E. H. T., William Christian Krumbein, Obituary, IAMG Newsletter No. 23, 1979.