Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

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First Picture: Geolgic Map of Minnesota
Second Picture: Faculty Members
 

The History of Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

The study of geology at the University of Minnesota began in 1872 by 
an act of the State Legislature directing the Regents to establish a 

Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey to investigate the 
geology of Minnesota and make that information available to its citizens.  
In the spring of that year Newton Horace Winchell came to Minnesota 
as the State Geologist, and in the fall he also started teaching as the 
University's first Professor of Geology and Mineralogy.  The School of 
Earth Sciences was established in 1962 to include the Department of 
Geology and Geophysics, the Minnesota Geological Survey, and the 

Limnological Research Center.  The numerous contributions made 
by N. H. Winchell to the study of geology at the University of Minnesota 
were commemorated in 1988 with the renaming of the School as the 
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences. Since Winchell's time 
many illustrious names in North American geosciences have been associated 
with the School, either as instructors or students.
 

Today's Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

• The Department of Geology and Geophysics
• Hydrogeology Summer Field Camp
• Limnological Research Center
• Minnesota Geological Survey
• Institute for Rock Magnetism

Here are some Geology and Geophysics related links