Josiah Whitney
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title:
Josiah Whitney
text:
Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University, and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874). Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regions of the United States, Whitney became the foremost authority of his day on the economic geology of the U.S. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, and the Whitney Glacier, the first confirmed glacier in the United States, on Mount Shasta, were both named
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American geologist (1819–1896)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Whitney
date created:
2004-06-29T06:15:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T02:57:46Z
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