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    Garniss H. Curtis, (born May 27, 1919 – died December 19, 2012) was a professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, geochronologist...
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    years). The controversial Mojokerto child, which Carl C. Swisher and Garniss Curtis once dated to 1.81 ± 0.04 Ma, has now been convincingly re-dated to...
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    around 1.81 Ma old. The authors of the paper, Carl C. Swisher III and Garniss Curtis, argued that this date had wide implications for our understanding of...
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    was about half a million years old, but in 1965, American geologists Garniss Curtis and Jack Evernden dated OH 5 to 1.75 million years ago using potassium–argon...
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    investigated the geology of the buttes in 1929. Williams teamed up with Garniss Curtis in 1977 to include radiometric dating of the area. Since 1929, the State...
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    have been dated at 1.7 mya through the first use of K-Ar dating by Garniss Curtis. In addition, fission track dating and paleomagnetism were used to date...
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    Robert Sibley, shortly after his death. U.C. Berkeley Professor Emeritus Garniss Curtis studied the Sibley Regional Preserve extensively, dating the volcano...
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    Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt. Notable geologist instructors included Garniss Curtis and Gene Shoemaker. "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Tour". Katmai National...
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  • was originally a research group in the laboratory of geochronologist Garniss Curtis at the University of California, Berkeley. The center is now an independent...
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  • Crauchet, 92, French actor. Ian Crewes, 74, Australian footballer. Garniss Curtis, 93, American geophysicist. Colin Davis, 79, British racing driver,...
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    continue work at Olduvai. In 1960, geophysicists Jack Evernden and Garniss Curtis dated Bed I from 1.89 to 1.75 million years ago, confirming the great...
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  • Languages and Literatures, 1995–2013 Walter Alvarez – Professor of Geology Garniss Curtis (Ph.D. 1951) – Professor Emeritus of Geology Michael J. Watts – Professor...
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  • paperback, renamed version of the 2000 book. Java Man by Carl Swisher, Garniss Curtis, and Lewin, 2002 paperback. Principles of Human Evolution, by Lewin...
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    professors Glynn Isaac, J. Desmond Clark, F. Clark Howell, Tim White, Garniss Curtis, and Richard Hay. Toth completed the Flintknapping Field School at Washington...
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  • geochronology impossible. The conflict was resolved after geochemist Garniss Curtis and his student Thure E. Cerling conducted independent investigations...
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  • Olduvai began in 1961 with a look at rock samples which my colleague Garniss Curtis brought back for K-Ar dating. At that time I was interested in the zeolites...
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  • 1–378, doi:10.1130/MEM71-p1 Google Books: The Sutter Buttes of California: A Study of Plio-Pleistocene Volcanism; Howel Williams, Garniss H. Curtis....
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    Brown (1980). Brown began his doctoral work at Berkeley studying under Garniss Curtis. In 1966 anthropologist Francis Clark Howell sent Brown to the Omo Valley...
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  • Survey. doi:10.3133/sim3414. S2CID 199092600. Retrieved Aug 12, 2019. Curtis, Garniss (1996). "Memorial to Clyde Wahrhaftig (1919-1994) (Geological Society...
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  • 17 December 2021. Google Books: The Sutter Buttes of California: A Study of Plio-Pleistocene Volcanism; Howel Williams, Garniss H. Curtis. v t e v t e...
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    ". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 May 2021. III, Carl C. Swisher; Curtis, Garniss H.; Lewin, Roger (2001). Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding...
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  • Crystallography. p. 204. History of the America Crystallographic Association Garniss H. Curtis; Bruce A. Bolt & John Verhoogen (2011), "Adolf Pabst, Geology: Berkeley...
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    from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2012. Curtis, Garniss H (16 October 2008). "Emeritus Professor of Geology Weighs In on Memorial...
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    ISBN 978-0-375-42447-2. LCCN 2007024699. OCLC 144598195. Swisher, Carl C. III; Curtis, Garniss H.; Lewin, Roger (2001) [Originally published 2000]. Java Man: How...
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  • pp. 50–55, retrieved 2019-03-08 Marshall, L.G.; Drake, Robert E.; Curtis, Garniss H. (1986), "40K-40Ar age calibration of late Miocene-Pliocene mammal-bearing...
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    Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2020. Curtis, Garniss; Lewin, Roger (2000). Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding...
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    ISBN 978-0-521-32370-3. LCCN 92018037. OCLC 444512451. Swisher, Carl C. III; Curtis, Garniss H.; Lewin, Roger (2001) [Originally published 2000]. Java Man: How...
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  • Geological Survey. Retrieved February 25, 2010. Drake, Robert E.; Curtis, Garniss; Vergara, Mario (1976). "Potassium-argon dating of igneous activity...
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    389I. doi:10.1006/jhev.1996.0034. Lewin, Roger; Swisher, Carl Celso; Curtis, Garniss H. (2000). Java man: how two geologists' dramatic discoveries changed...
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  • Depot Captain George Milner Ormerod, Royal Field Artillery Rev. Benjamin Garniss O'Rorke, MA, Royal Army Chaplains' Department Major Darrell Ovey, Rifle...
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