Thomas Wayland Vaughan
1870-09-20 – 1952-01-16
Dr. Thomas Wayland Vaughan was a geologist, paleontologist, and oceanographer . Educated at Harvard (AB, AM, PhD), he was an authority on marine sediments, fossil and recent corals, and American Tertiary stratigraphy. He was a researcher with the United States Geological Survey (1894-1939), and then joined the United States National Museum where he served as Custodian of Madreporian Corals (1903–23), an Associate in Marine Sediments (1924-1942), and as an Associate in Paleontology (1942-1952). He was also Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1924-1936. His research focused on the study of corals and coral reefs, the investigation of larger foraminifera, and oceanography. Under his directorship, Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California, became a leading oceanographical research center.
Books
- Biological research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- The international committee on the oceanography of the Pacific
- Corals from the Cannonball marine member of the Lance formation
- The geologic work of mangroves in southern Florida
- Research facilities at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States
- Austin folio, Texas
- Fossil corals from Lesser Antilles and Porto Rico
- Descriptions of new species of Foraminifera of the genus Discocyclina from the Eocene of Mexico
- Larger Foraminifera of the genus Lepidocyclina related to Lepidocyclina mantelli
- The reef-coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California, and its significance
- Revision of the suborders, families, and genera of the Scleractinia
- American Old and Middle Tertiary larger Foraminifera and corals
- Fossil Echini Of The West Indies; Stratigraphic Significance Of The Species Of West Indian Fossil Echini
- International aspects of oceanography
- Reports of the International Committees on the Oceanography and the Coral Reefs of the Pacific
- The temperature of the Florida coral-reef tract
- Nueces folio, Texas
- Oceanographic research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California
- Reconnaissance in the Rio Grande coal fields of Texas
- Preliminary remarks on the geology of the Bahamas
- A new fossil species of Caryophyllia from California, and a new genus and species of turbinolid coral from Japan
- Uvalde folio, Texas
- The biologic character and geologic correlation of the sedimentary formations of Panama in their relation to the geologic history of Central America and the West Indies
- Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding
- Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica
- Calcareous shallow-water marine deposits of Florida of the Bahamas
- Miocene corals from Trinidad
- Criteria and status of correlation and classification of Tertiary deposits
- New tertiary Foraminifera of the genera Operculina and Operculinoides from North America and the West Indies
- Preliminary report on the Cretaceous and Tertiary larger Foraminifera of Trinidad, British West Indies
- Studies of American species of Foraminifera of the genus Lepidocyclina
- A new species of Eocene coral, Archohelia clarki, from California
- Suggestions for oceanographic exploration of the Pacific
- Some shoal-water bottom samples from Murray Island, Australia, and comparisons of them with samples from Florida and the Bahamas
- A contribution to the geologic history of the Floridian plateau
- Fossil corals from Central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico
- New species of fossil corals from the Dominican Republic
- Oceanographic work at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, California
- Un reconocimiento geológico de la República dominicana
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