Henry Hurd Swinnerton

Henry Hurd Swinnerton (1875-1966) was a British geologist. He was professor of geology at University College Nottingham from 1910 to 1946. (Not to be confused with American geologist A.C. Swinnerton).

In the 1930s Swinnerton was a member of the Fenland Research Committee, contributing valuable knowledge of the geomorphology of the Lincolnshire coast. [cite web |url=http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~pjs1011/grahame-clark+fenland-research-committee.pdf |title=Grahame Clark, the Fenland Research Committee and prehistory at Cambridge|author=Smith P.J.|date=1994|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=2008-03-08] . In 1942 he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.

elected bibliography

*Swinnerton H.H. (1910) "Nottinghamshire", Cambridge County Geographies.
*Swinnerton H.H. (1912) The palmistry of the rocks. "Rep Trans Notts Nat Soc"; 60: 65-68.
*Swinnerton H.H.; Trueman, A.E. (1917). The Morphology and Development of the Ammonite Septum. "Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society", London 73, 26–58
*Swinnerton H.H. (1923) "Outlines of Palaeontology". Third edition. London, Edward Arnold, 1958.
*Swinnerton H.H. (1935) The Rocks Below the Red Chalk of Lincolnshire, and Their Cephalopod Faunas. "Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society", London 91, 1–46.
*Swinnerton H.H. & Kent P.E. (1949) "The Geology of Lincolnshire" (Lincolnshire Natural History Brochure No. 1.) Lincoln, Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union 1949 (2nd Ed, 1981).
*Swinnerton H.H. (1938). Presidential Address. The Problem of the Lincoln Gap. "Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union" 9, 145-153.
*Swinnerton H.H. (1941). Further observations on the Lower Cretaceous rocks of Lincolnshire. "Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association" 52, 198-207.
*Swinnerton H.H. (1943) Belemnites from East Greenland. "Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. II" 10 (66), 406–410.
*Swinnerton H.H. (1936-1955) A Monograph of British Cretaceous Belemnites. Lower Cretaceous. "Palaeontographical Society", London 1-5, 1–86.
*Swinnerton H.H. (1958) "The Earth Beneath Us" Harmondsworth: Pelican .
*Swinnerton H.H. (1960) "Fossils" (New Naturalist Series). London: Collins.

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External links

* [http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/swinnerton1910/preface.htm Swinnerton (1910) "Nottinghamshire", Cambridge County Geographies]
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