Eliot Blackwelder (June 4, 1880 – January 14, 1969) was an American geologist who from 1922 to 1945 was head of the

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department of geology. He served as president of the

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in 1940 and of the

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from 1947 to 1949.

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* 1880 births 1969 deaths 20th-century American geologists Stanford University faculty {{US-geologist-stub