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Newton Horace Winchell Newton Horace Winchell (17 December 1839 – 2 May 1914) was an American geologist chiefly notable for his six-volume work ''The Geology of Minnesota: Final Report of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota'', which was prepared ...
School of Earth Sciences at the
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...
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Minnesota Geological Survey, Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Minnesota


History

The Minnesota Geological Survey was established by the Minnesota State Legislature in 1872 as the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, and
Newton Horace Winchell Newton Horace Winchell (17 December 1839 – 2 May 1914) was an American geologist chiefly notable for his six-volume work ''The Geology of Minnesota: Final Report of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota'', which was prepared ...
was appointed as its director.


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Depth of Bedrock in Minnesota
(2018, EN) Geology of Minnesota Geological surveys {{Minnesota-stub