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Charles Lapworth

English geologist

Died when: 77 years 175 days (929 months)
Star Sign: Virgo

 

Charles Lapworth

Charles Lapworth FRS FGS (20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920) was a headteacher and an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.


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