Reg Sprigg
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Reg Sprigg
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Reginald Claude Sprigg, was an Australian geologist and conservationist. At 17 he became the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. During 1946, in the Ediacara Hills, South Australia he discovered the Ediacara biota, an assemblage of some of the most ancient animal fossils known. He was involved with oceanographic research and petroleum exploration by various companies that he initiated. In 1968, he acquired a derelict pastoral lease, Arkaroola, and transformed it into a wildl
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Australian geologist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Sprigg
date created:
2006-05-31T10:52:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T03:12:39Z
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