Oxburgh, E. R.
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Name (Latin)
Oxburgh, E. R.
Date of birth
1934-11-02
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Geology
Geophysics
Occupation
Geologists
Geophysicists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- OCLC. October 16, 2018(access point: Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, 1934-)
- The geology of the eastern Alps, 1968:title page (E.R. Oxburgh, M.A., Ph.D.)
- Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, KBE, FRS, HonFREng (born 2 November 1934) is a British geologist, geophysicist, and politician. Oxburgh was born in Liverpool. He is a graduate of the University College, Oxford and Princeton University (PhD) (1960) where he worked on the emerging theory of plate tectonics with the famous geologist Harry Hammond Hess. Oxburgh has taught geology and geophysics at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. ( (Wikipedia, viewed October 16, 2018) )
- The Relative contributions of mantle, oceanic crust, and continental crust to magma genesis, 1984:t.p. (E. R. Oxburgh) p. 19 (Dept. of Earth Sci., Univ. of Cambridge)
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Official portrait of Lord Oxburgh crop 2
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Wikipedia description:
Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh (born 2 November 1934) is an English geologist, geophysicist and politician. Lord Oxburgh is well known for his work as a public advocate in both academia and the business world in addressing the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and develop alternative energy sources as well as his negative views on the consequences of current oil consumption.
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