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Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell

Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell

Leaf, Sue

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeologyRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1517922038
ISBN13: 9781517922030
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Winner of the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction

The story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesota's geology, set against the backdrop of early scientific inquiry in the state

At twenty, Newton Horace Winchell declared, I know nothing about rocks. At twenty-five, he decided to make them his life's work. As a young geologist tasked with heading the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey, Winchell (1839-1914) charted the prehistory of the region, its era of inland seas, its volcanic activity, and its several ice ages--laying the foundation for the monumental five-volume Geology of Minnesota. Tracing Winchell's remarkable path from impoverished fifteen-year-old schoolteacher to a leading light of an emerging scientific field, Minnesota's Geologist also recreates the heady early days of scientific inquiry in Minnesota, a time when one man's determination and passion for learning could unlock the secrets of the state's distant past and present landscape.

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